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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Seen from Sirius through the eye of the telescope, our inner solar system would easily fit within one CCD-pixel. The purpose of the present paper is: i) to provide with a general overview of the use of imaging or 3D-spectroscopy for the study of the solid planetary surfaces, ii) to demonstrate that the analysis of 3D spectroscopic data on the basis of spectral mixture modelling permits to describe the subpixel spectral variability related to mineralogy of the planetary solid surfaces. In the following, a few cases are discussed concerning the remote sensing investigation in the UV-VIS-nIR domain of the lunar, terrestrial and martian surfaces, documented by means of multispectral or hyperspectral data, produced by telescopic, airborne or orbital imaging spectroscopic techniques.