New technology could remotely identify various types of plastics, offering a valuable tool for future monitoring and analysis of oceanic plastic pollution. A new hyperspectral Raman imaging lidar ...

If you’ve shopped for optical sorters in the last decade, “hyperspectral imaging” likely is a term you have encountered in some suppliers’ literature and on their websites. Hyperspectral imaging ...

Startup HySpecIQ awarded a contract in 2014 to Boeing to build its hyperspectral imaging satellites. HySpecIQ then halted work on its constellation due to a decline in energy prices. This image ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Hyperspectral imaging startup Wyvern said Nov. 1 it secured $7 million in additional seed funds ahead of deploying its first satellites early next year. Venture capital firm Uncork ...

Analytical and security applications of photonics-based remote sensing were described by speakers both from commercial and academic backgrounds at this week’s Security + Defence 2016 conference. The ...

What if plants could speak when they were thirsty? Agriculture, in essence, is a dialog among crops, soil and climate. Yet drought, the most insidious stressor, remains largely silent until its damage ...

WASHINGTON -- In a new study, researchers used 3D printing and low-cost parts to create an inexpensive hyperspectral imager that is light enough to use onboard drones. They offer a recipe for creating ...

LA and Bangalore-based space startup Pixxel has closed a $7.3 million seed round, including newly committed capital from Techstars, Omnivore VC and more. The company has also announced a new product ...

An image from the XCUBE-1 satellite shows the Salt River in Arizona. ©2025 Xplore Inc. All rights reserved. Bellevue, Wash.-based Xplore has released the first ...

RGB image from a smartphone (left); blood flow mapping (centre); overlaid images (right). Redder colours indicate higher blood perfusion. (Courtesy: Ruikang Wang) In a hyperspectral image, each pixel ...