Collecting Data from Resonon's Airborne Imaging Spectrometer

Application Areas

Hyperspectral imaging provides far more color (or spectral) information than conventional digital camera imaging, thereby enabling superior machine vision sorting and characterization. For additional background on hyperspectral imaging, please read this brief tutorial (in pdf). More detailed background can be found in the partial listing of research publications involving Resonon’s imaging spectrometers.

Sorting and Quality Control

Pharmaceuticals


Common medications

Classifications based on NIR signatures.

Infrared hyperspectral inspection can be used to inspect pharmaceuticals for counterfeiting and quality control. Resonon’s Pika NIR (Near Infrared) imaging spectrometer and Spectronon software were used to collect and classify the common pills shown.

Material Analysis


Titanium sponge defects

Green, Orange & Yellow indicate different defects.

Hyperspectral inspection can improve quality and quantity in manufacturing by providing timely and accurate information about materials. Resonon’s expertise throughout the design and construction of hyperspectral instruments allows us to create robust and customized solutions that uniquely adapt to the requirements of industry at any point in production.

Food Industry


Pork meat structure

Classification of meat, fat, and bone

The food industry can use hyperspectral imaging to inspect consumables such as seeds, poultry, fruits, and vegetables for defects, ripeness, grading, and contamination.

Color Management

Accurate Color Mapping


Color Tiles

Resonon’s Spectronon software converts spectral images into CIE LAB, XYZ, or xyY color-space and provides delta E values from a user-specified standard, as well as mapping the image to a user-specified delta E tolerance. The accuracy of the color measurement is near 1 delta E, allowing color differentiation as good as the human eye. Applications include quality control in textiles and printed goods.

Remote Sensing

Geophysics


Glacial melt pools image

True color representation & PCA reduction of airborne VNIR spectral data.

Resonon’s compact airborne hyperspectral imaging system can be deployed on both manned and unmanned aerial systems. Generating and analyzing geophysical hyperspectral data allows researchers to easily use established remote sensing techniques to study a variety of the earth's physical properties. The image to the left shows results from Resonon’s system obtained during a deployment over the glaciers of Greenland.

Precision Agriculture

agricultural index aerial image
Hay field aerial image

True color airborne image (left) & five classification maps based on agricultural indices.

Precision agriculture aims to identify and correct in-field variability in agricultural settings. Resonon’s lightweight imagers enable the acquisition of hyperspectral images in field conditions. The collected information can be used to understand crop health, weed locations, or fuel loading in forests.

Research

Biotechnology


Electrophoresis gel

Iimaging of overlapping fluorescent signals, enables dye multiplexing.

Hyperspectral sensing enables one to identify and differentiate between biological samples with high spectral and spatial resolution.