The hypersensor camera operates with a unique multispectral imaging modality developed recently at Surface Optics Corporation. The Hypersensor camera is small, low cost, rugged, and solid state, using micro-optics and an array of spectral filters, which captures a complete multispectral cube of spatial and spectral data with every focal plane exposure. The prototype VNIR Hypersensor camera captures full cubes of 588×438 (spatial pixels) x 16 (spectral bands) at frame rates up to 60 Hz. This paper discusses the optical design of the Hypersensor camera, the measured performance, and the design and operation of a custom video-rate hyperspectral processor developed for this system.
Citation
David B. Cavanaugh, James M. Lorenz, Nora Unwin, Mark Dombrowski, and Paul Willson “VNIR hypersensor camera system”, Proc. SPIE 7457, Imaging Spectrometry XIV, 74570O (17 August 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.833539