ABSTRACT
The Medium Scale Surface Temperature (MUST) study was carried out in the framework of the European Commission (DG XII) fourth “Research and Development Work Programme.” The objective of this study was the definition and demonstration of interest of a large swath, medium resolution thermal infrared imager mission, named MUST. More precisely speaking the specific objectives were:
to demonstrate the relevance and efficiency of the products of the MUST mission in the relevant application fields and to assess the economical benefits of the mission;
to further develop methodologies for retrieving thermal- and water-related surface parameters from the sensor data;
to design a medium-resolution, large-swath thermal imager, that is, compact and affordable;
to analyze the operational implementation of the ground segment.
