The Lunar Terrain Imager (LUTI) is a high-resolution camera
developed by KARI. LUTI takes images of possible landing sites for
future lunar exploration missions and other specific target sites.
The camera has a high spatial resolution of 2.5 m per pixel at an
altitude of 100 km, and collects lunar geology and topology data in
the 450-850 nm wavelength range. The collected image by LUTI will be
used to select candidate landing sites for Korea’s 2nd stage of
lunar exploration (2030’s).
LUTI is a type of dual
push-broom imager designed to capture scanned images along the
spacecraft's direction of travel, one line at a time. It consists of
two cameras mounted side-by-side, each tilted at an angle of around
2.7 degrees in opposite directions, resulting in a combined image
width of 10 kilometers and a slight overlap between the image pairs.
To account for any differences in gain between the images, pixel
response non-uniformity correction will be applied during on-ground
image processing.
LUTI (Credit: KARI)