This special issue follows from those science meetings, where presentations
have covered a wide range of topics, from underlying algorithms
and technologies to applied science. The included papers are by
no means exhaustive with respect to the HyspIRI mission, but they
offer a very good cross-section of relevant topics. Lee et al. (2015-in
this issue) provide a mission overview, describing the VSWIR and TIR
sensors and giving a synopsis of the science underlying the mission
objectives. This paper is the fundamental reference point for the broader
HyspIRI mission concept. The papers that follow focus on individual
aspects of HyspIRI science, from technical issues and algorithms to results
for observations of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem applications,
and they merit some further mention.