Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging: Progress and Challenges
A special issue of Journal of Imaging (ISSN 2313-433X). This special issue belongs to the section "Color, Multi-spectral, and Hyperspectral Imaging".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 43
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hyperspectral; image processing; robotics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hyperspectral imaging opens the door to promising new fields. Today, applications can be found in:
- Precision agriculture (early detection of diseases and pests, optimized management of inputs, yield estimation, etc.),
- Ecosystem management (species mapping for sustainable management, disease detection, biomass mapping, environmental changes, etc.),
- Environmental monitoring (ocean analysis, coastal zone monitoring, pollutant detection, etc.),
- Agri-food industry (quality control, automated sorting, etc.),
- Cultural heritage preservation (artwork analysis, detection of hidden structures, material characterization, etc.),
- Healthcare (non-invasive diagnosis, surgical monitoring, tissue analysis, etc.),
- Defense and security (detection of stealth coatings and camouflage, monitoring of industrial activities, mine detection, etc.).
All these applications rely on the synergy between imaging systems (optical assemblies, sensors, acquisition electronics, and preprocessing) and advanced data processing techniques. This special issue provides a snapshot of the latest advances in hyperspectral technologies and their applications, and thus covers all aspects of the field.
This special issue focuses on recent development in the design of novel sensors and their optical filters. Submissions describing new methods for calibration, standardization, and preprocessing are encouraged. Topics also include database challenges specific to anomaly detection, tracking of low-visibility objects, and machine learning. New processing algorithms are welcome, provided their benefits are demonstrated through detailed evaluations. All proposed methods may be showcased through operational use cases.
Dr. Jacques Blanc-Talon
Dr. Patrice Delmas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sensor
- band selection
- unmixing
- anomaly detection
- hyperspectral imaging (HSI)
- multispectral imaging
- spectral databases
- evaluation for HSI
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