Simulating the performance of the hyperspectral payload of the PRISMA mission

PRISMA (PRecursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa) is a Program of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) aimed at the development of an advanced payload that includes a hyperspectral camera coupled with a panchromatic imager fed by the same telescope. In this paper the development of a software tool that is devoted to simulate the images acquired by the hyperspectral imager of the PRISMA mission is presented. Results coming from a first software implementation are shown and discussed.