Applied Optics
Published by The Optical Society of America

Applied Optics Feature Announcement

Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging

Submission Deadline: 1 March 2008

Multispectral and hyperspectral imaging is a rapidly developing remote sensing technology being pursued to enhance the information content available for a variety of commercial, civil, defense, and security applications. This field of research is multi-disciplinary in nature, crossing the fields of material spectroscopy, atmospheric sciences, electro-optic sensing, and multi-dimensional signal processing. Key advances across these fields have enabled the technology to mature to the point where practical systems are being developed for a variety of ground-based, airborne, and space-based sensing platforms. Despite the successful deployment of these systems, technical challenges still remain with regard to achieving desired spectral, spatial, and radiometric measurement fidelity in practical, compact system configurations; covering broader areas for search applications; extracting the useful information in automated and semi-automated processing situations; and dealing with complex imaging scenarios such as shadowed objects, urban areas, and inferior atmospheric and environmental conditions.

This feature issue is intended to attract and compile leading research across these disciplines representative of the recent advances in high-resolution multispectral and hyperspectral imaging technology for remote sensing applications. Specific topics of interest include:

  • Spectral Properties of Materials
  • Spectral Scene Phenomenology
  • Multispectral Focal Plane Arrays
  • Imaging Spectrometer Design
  • Airborne and Space-Based Sensors
  • Spectral Unmixing and Classification
  • Target and Anomaly Detection
  • Atmospheric Normalization
  • Hyperspectral Change Detection
  • Commercial Applications
  • Civil Applications
  • Defense and Security Applications

Manuscripts must be prepared in standard Applied Optics format; see Information for Contributors instructions in any recent issue of Applied Optics. Please submit your manuscript electronically to the Information Processing division of Applied Optics, and specify that the manuscript is for the Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging feature (choose from the feature issue drop-down menu). Information on electronic manuscript submission can be found at http://ao.osa.org/journal/ao/author.cfm

Feature Editors

Michael Eismann
Air Force Research Laboratory
Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
USA
michael.eismann@wpafb.af.mil

John Kerekes
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York
USA
kerekes@cis.rit.edu

Bob Leathers
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, DC
USA
leathers@nrl.navy.mil

Alan Schaum
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, DC
USA
alan.schaum@nrl.navy.mil