PRISM performed 3 successful test flights at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center on the NASA ER-2.  There was a vicarious calibration experiment utilizing a JPL field team making surface radiometric and atmospheric measurements over Ivanpah Playa.  Two flights occurred off the South Coast of CA, and one had a JPL in water team making measurements in conjunction with the PRISM overflight.  PRISM also collected data with AVIRIS-C during the HyspIRI Airborne Campaign. 

NASA has funded a new campaign for PRISM to map plankton concentration in the Southern Ocean (Michelle Gierach, JPL PI), as part of the larger NSF-funded ORCAS science campaign (Britton Stephens, U. Colorado PI).  Flights are expected in January 2016.

PRISM has completed its Florida flights, having covered all the lines required by the science investigator, Dr. Heidi Dierssen.

The Portable Remote Imaging Spectrometer (PRISM) has been successfully ferried to the Greater Florida Bay area and has begun science flights. An initial quick-look image of Florida sea grass is reproduced below; note the absence of visible artifacts, such as striping, that appear even before imaging processing.

This benthic vegetation investigation is headed by Professor Heidi Dierssen of the University of Connecticut and includes in-situ measurements.