PHIRST light: a liquid crystal tunable filter hyperspectral sensor

Brian P. Stevenson; William B. Kendall; Christopher M. Stellman; Frederick M. Olchowski

doi:10.1117/12.497540

23 September 2003 PHIRST light: a liquid crystal tunable filter hyperspectral sensor

Brian P. Stevenson, William B. Kendall, Christopher M. Stellman, Frederick M. Olchowski

Proceedings Volume 5093, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery IX; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.497540
Event: AeroSense 2003, 2003, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

PHIRST Light is a visible and near-infrared (VNIR) hyperspectral imaging sensor that has been assembled at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) using off-the-shelf components. It consists of a Dalsa 1M60 camera mated to a CRI VariSpec liquid crystal tunable filter (LCTF) and a conventional 75mm Pentax lens. This system can be thought of as the modern equivalent of a filter-wheel sensor. Historically, the problem with such sensors has been that images for different wavelengths are collected at different times. This causes spectral correlation problems when the camera is not perfectly still during the collection time for all bands (such as when it is deployed on an airborne platform). However, the PHIRST Light sensor is hard mounted in a Twin Otter aircraft, and is mated to a TrueTime event capture board, which records the precise GPS time of each image frame. Combining this information with the output of a CMIGITS INS/GPS unit permits precise coregistration of images from multiple wavelengths, and allows the formation of a conventional hyperspectral image cube. In this paper we present an overview of the sensor and its deployment, describe the processing steps required to produce coregistered hyperspectral cubes, and show detection results for targets viewed during the Aberdeen Collection Experiment (ACE).

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Brian P. Stevenson, William B. Kendall, Christopher M. Stellman, and Frederick M. Olchowski "PHIRST light: a liquid crystal tunable filter hyperspectral sensor", Proc. SPIE 5093, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery IX, (23 September 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.497540

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