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Optimizing Competing Instrument Needs with an Objective Metric

Justin Rowell by Justin Rowell
29.09.2022
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A thermal image of coastline shows plant evaporative stress in varying shades of red and green. Waterways in black snake through the mangrove forest, becoming narrower toward the top of the image. Land that touches or is near a waterway tends to have low evaporative stress and shows up as bright green, whereas areas farther inland indicate high evaporative stress and appear red.

Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Designing instruments for spacecraft missions is an exercise in managing trade-offs. With severe restrictions on power, mass, and volume, space-based instruments are often compromised in ways an equivalent laboratory instrument would not be. Each instrument also generally supports a number of experiments or observational campaigns.

Each potential use of an instrument benefits differently from attributes such as spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution, or the signal-to-noise ratio. For instance, geologic observations may prefer high spatial and spectral resolution, whereas meteorologic experiments may require high-cadence observations and a good signal-to-noise ratio. Balancing these competing needs is a critical aspect of instrument design.

Cawse-Nicholson et al. propose a new objective metric for optimizing the competing needs of instrument users, which they call intrinsic dimensionality (ID). Intrinsic dimensionality quantifies the information content in a given set of observations by essentially counting the number of significant components in a principal component analysis of the data.

To test their approach, the authors applied ID to NASA’s proposed Surface Biology and Geology spacecraft. They identified and processed spectroscopic data sets from existing sources representative of the mission’s projected capabilities. By resampling the input data in different ways, they simulated various possible instrument trade-offs, calculating the ID for each.

The study finds that intrinsic dimensionality decreases with noisier, lower-resolution observations, which is consistent with intuition. However, the scientists note that this metric can be used to quantify intuition to guide trade-offs. They find that the sample scene (e.g., desert versus forest) has some effect on the consistency of ID for spatial considerations but less for spectral ones. In the future they will apply the concept to more areas of instrument and mission design, such as data rates, flight paths, and observing schedules. (Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG006876, 2022)

—Morgan Rehnberg, Science Writer

Citation: Rehnberg, M. (2022), Optimizing competing instrument needs with an objective metric, Eos, 103, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EO220414. Published on 29 August 2022.

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