FULL SPECTRAL IMAGING

Current optical remote sensing instrument technology allows the acquisition and digitization of all of the reflected energy (light) across the full-spectral range of interest. The current method for acquiring, transmitting, and processing this data is still based on the "multi-band" approach that has been used for the past thirty years. Full Spectral Imaging (FSI) intends to do remote sensing the way it would have been done in the first place if adequate technology would have been available... One of the most common objections to hyperspectral systems is that they produce "too much data". A typical hyperspectral system collects every bit for every band for every image pixel. If we consider what we are actually looking for, spectral and spatial features, then we must consider what we really want from the raw data. What we want is the information in the spectral and spatial features. We want to extract the information from the raw data.

Primary location: Strasbourg France