Typical commercial snapshot imagers offer about 400X400 spatial resolution. MUSES9-DR offers UHD/4K image resolution for every spectral image acquired. This radically improved spectral resolution is a valuable advantage, since it enables the precise documentation of the object/scene under analysis and the image zooming without pixelization. Moreover, it offers large field of view coverage and hence remarkably fewer capturing and data transmission steps, which are of critical importance when large areas are analyzed (e.g., drone imaging).     

MUSES9-DR captures and transmits, at video-rates, a sufficient number of raw, UHD critical spectral images. The hypercube is constructed from these raw images and from an additional image pack derived from the on-line or off-line spectral estimation, with all spectral images being evenly distributed across the spectrum. Spectral estimation-based hypercube’s dimensionality expansion dramatically reduces the requirements for both storage space and bandwidth.     

In all commercial snapshot spectral imagers, analysis/classification of hypercube data is performed at post capturing times and are not instantly available in the field. MUSES9-DR has the additional exceptional feature of delivering the entire pipeline: acquisition, capturing, visualization and analysis in real-time. Not only the hypercube data are acquired and displayed in real-time, but also the result of the analysis of hypercube data. Spectricon has invested several years of pioneering R&D to achieve this result, which advances hyperspectral imaging to a spectral visualization tool, offering non destructive analysis on the spot and instantly.