Hyperspectral cameras

Hyperspectral sensor technology has a very broad field of application in the laboratory.
In medical diagnostics, for example, it is a high-resolution tool for imaging applications of tissues at the microscopic or cellular level. It is used for non-invasive diagnostic imaging, optical biopsy, tissue delineation and therapeutic analysis.

In the food industry, hyperspectral imaging is particularly useful for the evaluation and inspection of foods such as specialty crops, nuts and cereal products as well as meat products such as lamb, poultry and beef. The study of crops and their models is another area in which hyperspectral sensors play a key role.

In addition, hyperspectral imaging is also widely used in forensics and document verification.

Spectral imaging for defense and surveillance applications is a function of high resolution (both spatial and spectral), high signal-to-noise ratio, low stray light and a large field of view. Headwall's hyperspectral imaging sensors have all four advantages thanks to their focus on diffractive optics.

Spectral imaging sensors provide hundreds of closely spaced spectral bands to capture useful data during inline inspection. This is far beyond the capabilities of standard three-band (RGB) cameras. And it is one reason that the proportion of hyperspectral imagers on traditional machine vision solutions is continually increasing. One field of application among several is the evaluation and inspection of foods such as specialty crops, nuts and cereal products as well as meat products such as lamb, poultry and beef.