SPIE - Education Imaging Spectrometry SC1220

This course covers the design and analysis of imaging spectrometers, from instrumentation to evaluation and data exploitation. After surveying the fundamentals of spectral imaging, the course provides a detailed survey of various implementations of imaging spectrometers and the benefits of each approach, with special attention to snapshot systems. Noise-equivalent spectral radiance (NESR) and other evaluation metrics are introduced and explained, providing a quantitative means of comparing systems. Finally, the course will review commonly used methods for data exploitation, surveys common algorithms used with spectral imaging data, and discusses their relative strengths and weaknesses. This course covers the design and analysis of imaging spectrometers, from instrumentation to evaluation and data exploitation. After surveying the fundamentals of spectral imaging, the course provides a detailed survey of various implementations of imaging spectrometers and the benefits of each approach, with special attention to snapshot systems. Noise-equivalent spectral radiance (NESR) and other evaluation metrics are introduced and explained, providing a quantitative means of comparing systems. Finally, the course will review commonly used methods for data exploitation, surveys common algorithms used with spectral imaging data, and discusses their relative strengths and weaknesses.