CSP - Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of the Environment Meeting Scholarship Fund
Abstract
Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of the Environment Meeting Scholarship Fund:The Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of the Environment (HISE) meeting will be held 14-17 November 2016 in Leipzig, Germany. This meeting will bring together innovative international scientists in the field of hyperspectral instrumentation and data analysis, focusing especially on geophysical and atmospheric phenomena, and advanced remote detection techniques based on hyperspectral signatures.Background and relevance:Hyperspectral imaging is an advanced imaging modality that provides the spectral content of each pixel in the observed scene. A hyperspectral imager produces a data cube at each observation time, and results in a series of data cubes as a function of time. Hyperspectral imaging systems contribute to many Naval applications that involve remote detection and identification of objects and materials, in solid, liquid, or gas states, using their spectral signatures as well as time-varying geometry. The large amount of information obtained by hyperspectral imagers allows a unique ISR capability in applications including target detection and tracking, site monitoring, oceanography, chemical agent detection, terrain characterization, and trafficability assessment. In the past three decades, NRL has conducted extensive hyperspectral R&D and data collection/analysis activities for various applications. Hyperspectral imaging systems developed by NRL have been used in many locations including the North Pole and the International Space Station (ISS). Like other sensor systems, increasingly more demanding missions require improvements in the sensitivity, resolution, size, weight, speed, detection and identification performance, power consumption, and cost of hyperspectral imagers. Contribution of proposed meeting:This meeting will provide a forum for breakthrough scientific research and technology in hyperspectral sensing of the environment. Sessions are planned on new sensor design and calibration techniques, atmospheric modeling, advanced detection and pattern recognition, material identification and quantification, and thermal hyperspectral sensing and video rate hyperspectral imaging. Advances in hyperspectral imaging can support needs of Assure Access to the Maritime Battlespace as well as Expeditionary and Irregular Warfare. The meeting is organized by the Optical Society of America (OSA) and invited speakers are from several European countries and from the US. Dr. Michael Yetzbacher, from Sensor Technology (Code 5662) at NRL, is an active participant and strong supporter of this meeting. Funding is requested for travel expenses of up to four invited speakers, and registration fees of up to seven attendees. I recommend funding this proposal.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Nov 23, 2016
- Source ID
- N629091612229
Entities
People
- Manfred Wendisch
Organizations
- Leipzig University
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy