June 21, 2021
Surface Optics announced it has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to develop a spectral imaging system for the detection of unmanned aerial vehicles. The capability to detect, track, classify and ultimately neutralize the UAV threat is becoming increasingly important due to the […]
June 15, 2021
The non-profit organization 4Walls International in conjuncture with southern California researchers, is working with local municipalities in leading the way on attempts to clean up the US-Mexico bordered Tijuana River Estuary in a project known as the Border Impact Bond. The problem as stated by 4Walls International: Single-use plastics, foam, tires and sediment flow across the […]
January 13, 2021
Imaging and Machine Vision Europe magazine features Surface Optics Corporation in a cover story for its December 2020 / January 2021 edition. IMVE Magazine publishes content for design and production engineers working in the scientific imaging and machine vision market. In the article titled “Plastic not fantastic”, Editor Greg Blackman looks at how shortwave infrared […]
October 10, 2020
Plastics have long been receiving attention due to their abundance in daily use, as well as their loss to the environment as debris. Plastic pollution is widely accepted as an environmental crisis, particularly in marine environments as millions of tons of plastics enter the oceans annually. Although some macro plastics can be determined using visible-range […]
August 22, 2020
Most plastics are typically transparent in the visible spectral range, rendering them challenging to detect using silicon-based vision sensors. In this work a SWIR hyperspectral imaging system is used to collect the SWIR hyperspectral signatures as well as spatial information of a variety of plastics outdoors to test this technology for plastic debris detection and […]
May 29, 2019
BP deploys advanced infrared camera that can support methane emissions management by monitoring emissions in real time SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 31, 2019 – Surface Optics Corporation is part of an industry team behind an infrared (IR) camera that BP plc group businesses are using to manage methane emissions at oil and gas production facilities […]
March 7, 2019
Reflectance imaging spectroscopy (RIS) in the visible and near infrared is revolutionizing the way cultural heritage investigators may analyze paintings nondestructively. In an ongoing, highly collaborative project, the authors are investigating a painting by American artist John White Alexander (1856–1915). The painting, titled A Study in Pink, is in the collection of the Virginia Museum […]
May 8, 2018
The Spectral-Polarimetric Hypersensor (SPH) is a new compact, solid state, video rate imaging system with no moving parts capable of capturing up to 16 bands of both spectral and polarimetric content simultaneously. For these imagers, which are an adaptation of a plenoptic system, all elements for a given super pixel sample the same point in […]
April 27, 2018
Surface Optics Corporation previewed for SPIE DCS ’18 conference attendees LVIRA™, the first commercial multimodal snapshot spectral imager. LVIRA collects spectral, light field and polarization information to achieve improved classification performance over standard spectral imaging systems.
April 15, 2018
Roger Hanlon is a Senior Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), an international center for research and education in biological and environmental science located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Hanlon’s laboratory studies the camouflage phenomena of cephalopods, which includes squid, octopus, and cuttlefish. Hanlon’s lab has published over 200 scientific papers on cephalopods and their […]