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Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Sensors (SC194)

Course Level: Advanced

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Length (hours): 3.5

Course
Description

This course will describe the imaging capabilities and applications of the principal types of multispectral (MS) and hyperspectral (HS) sensors. The focus will be on sensors that work in the visible, near-infrared and shortwave-infrared spectral regimes, but the course will touch on longwave-infrared applications. A summary of the salient features of classical color imaging (human observation) will also be provided in an appendix.

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Learning
Outcomes

This course will enable you to:

explain many of the applications and advantages of multispectral (MS) and hyperspectral (HS) imaging
describe and categorize the properties of the principal MS / HS design types (multi-band scanner, starers with filter wheels, dispersive, wedge, and Fourier transform imagers with 2D arrays, etc.)
list and define the relevant radiometric radiometric quantities, concepts and phenomenology
describe the process of translating system requirements into sensor hardware constraints and specifications
analyze signal-to-noise ratio, modulation-transfer-function, and spatial / spectral sampling for MS and HS sensors
define, understand and apply the relevant noise-equivalent figures-of-merit (Noise-equivalent reflectance difference, Noise-equivalent temperature difference, Noise-equivalent spectral radiance, Noise-equivalent irradiance, etc.)
describe the elements of the image chain from photons-in to bits-out (photon detection, video signal manipulation, analog processing, and digitization)
list and review key imager subsystem technology elements (optical, focal plane, video electronics, and thermal)
formulate a detailed end-to-end design example of a satellite imaging scanning HS sensor
provide an appendix that summarizes color imaging principles and sensor associated elements for human observation applications (e.g. color television, still cameras, etc.)

explain many of the applications and advantages of multispectral (MS) and hyperspectral (HS) imaging
describe and categorize the properties of the principal MS / HS design types (multi-band scanner, starers with filter wheels, dispersive, wedge, and Fourier transform imagers with 2D arrays, etc.)
list and define the relevant radiometric radiometric quantities, concepts and phenomenology
describe the process of translating system requirements into sensor hardware constraints and specifications
analyze signal-to-noise ratio, modulation-transfer-function, and spatial / spectral sampling for MS and HS sensors
define, understand and apply the relevant noise-equivalent figures-of-merit (Noise-equivalent reflectance difference, Noise-equivalent temperature difference, Noise-equivalent spectral radiance, Noise-equivalent irradiance, etc.)
describe the elements of the image chain from photons-in to bits-out (photon detection, video signal manipulation, analog processing, and digitization)
list and review key imager subsystem technology elements (optical, focal plane, video electronics, and thermal)
formulate a detailed end-to-end design example of a satellite imaging scanning HS sensor
provide an appendix that summarizes color imaging principles and sensor associated elements for human observation applications (e.g. color television, still cameras, etc.)

Intended
Audience

Engineers, scientists, and technical managers who are interested in understanding and applying multispectral and hyperspectral sensors in advanced military, civil, scientific and commercial applications.

About the
Instructor

Terrence Lomheim holds the position of Distinguished Engineer at The Aerospace Corp. He has 41 years of hardware and analysis experience in visible and infrared electro-optical systems, focal plane technology, and applied optics, and has authored and co-authored 66 publications in these technical areas. He is a Fellow of the SPIE.

Terrence Lomheim holds the position of Distinguished Engineer at The Aerospace Corp. He has 34 years of hardware and analysis experience in visible and infrared electro-optical systems, focal plane technology, and applied optics, and has authored and co-authored 63 publications in these technical areas. He is a Fellow of the SPIE.

Additional
Notes

No additional notes for this course format.

Course format includes the Defense + Commercial Sensing 2018 live audio recording of the instructor with slide presentation. Course notes, quizzes, and certificates are not available for this online course.