HICO

Sensor Summary	The Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO™) is an imaging spectrometer based on the PHILLS airborne imaging spectrometers. HICO is the first spaceborne imaging spectrometer designed to sample the coastal ocean. HICO samples selected coastal regions at 90 m with full spectral coverage (380 to 960 nm sampled at 5.7 nm) and a very high signal-to-noise ratio to resolve the complexity of the coastal ocean. HICO demonstrates coastal products including water clarity, bottom types, bathymetry and on-shore vegetation maps. Each year HICO collects approximately 2000 scenes from around the world. The current focus is on providing HICO data for scientific research on coastal zones and other regions around the world.
Data Record Period	Our set of data records covers the entire routine operations period from 2009-09-25 to 2014-09-13.
Data Access	Direct Data Access Level-1 and Level-2 scene browser Data Subscriptions/Orders
Documentation	Mission Information Reprocessing History Target List Names HICO in the news Published Works OceanColor Forum posts Spectral Response Functions
Validation	N/A
Data Citation	Suggested Citation for HICO data: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Ocean Biology Processing Group. Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO™) {Dataset Name} Data; NASA OB.DAAC, Greenbelt, MD, USA. doi: {DOI}. Accessed on 03/29/2023 For further information, please refer to our Citations page.
Associated DOIs	10.5067/ISS/HICO/L1/DATA/1 10.5067/ISS/HICO/L2/OC/2018