Development of algorithms and products for supporting the Italian hyperspectral PRISMA mission: The SAP4PRISMA project

The SAP4PRISMA is a four year research project which aims at developing algorithms and products for the future PRISMA mission. The project started on May 2010 and is now entering his full activities as the "PRISMA like" data set has been defined and the test areas were selected. The paper describes the main project objectives and the activities realized in the first 9 months of the project.