Multispectral and Hyperspectral Instrumentation
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2017) | Viewed by 34168
Special Issue Editor
Interests: hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging; bio-optical oceanography
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
These Special Issues concern multispectral and hyperspectral imaging. Both approaches measure the wavelength dependence of the light captured by a sensor, but the nature of the instrument, and sometimes the processing approach, are different. Such work has quantified the idea of using “color” to gather information regarding the environment around us. The human eye allows for the use of color for many things—from determining fruit ripeness, to picking out Mars in the night sky. It has been about 350 years since Newton performed his experiments with prisms, heralding the start of optical spectroscopy; however, the roughly 45 years since the launch of LandSat has seen an enormous explosion in the ability of spectral imaging to impact many diverse fields. Technological advancements in several areas (spectrometers, computer processing, GPS/INS) have reduced the cost and increased the capability of using such data. Now, multispectral and hyperspectral instruments orbit the Earth and other planets, are used in factories and medical facilities, and have both military and forensic uses. Here, we limit our area of interest to the wavelength range of 200–14,000 nm.
As the field is so large, there will be two Special Issues—Part I: “Addresses the extraction of information from data”, and Part II: “Instruments themselves plus any supporting instrumentation or methods”.
The first issue can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/Hyperspectral_Data.
The second issue will be entitled “Multispectral and Hyperspectral Instrumentation.” It will cover the instruments themselves, plus any supporting instrumentation or methods required to make the data useful for the extraction of information. Subjects here would include, but are not limited to, the methods and hardware associated with the instrumentation, calibration, instrument modeling, stray light modeling or correction, illumination approaches, and GPS/INS based geolocation. The second issue will also include papers that are hard to assign to one or the other issue because they cover aspects in both areas.Dr. Jeffrey H. Bowles
Guest Editor
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