MUSES9-DR

A Cutting Edge Airborne Spectral Imager

MUSES9-DR is the world’s first drone camera for remote sensing; acquiring up to 22 spectral images, spectral maps and vegetation index maps instantly, which are all displayed side-by-side at a video rate. It bridges the gap between low end multiple lens cameras, acquiring 6-8 spectral bands in a snapshot fashion and the high-end but low spatial resolution, weighty hyperspectral cameras.

 

Overview

A Cutting Edge Airborne Spectral Imager

Current commercial snapshot spectral imagers offer high spectral resolution at the cost of spatial resolution. Typical spatial resolutions offered by these systems are quite low, being in the range of 400X400 pixels. This is because they employ lens arrays of multi-band mosaic filters, projecting a plurality of filtered images onto an imaging sensor, thus dividing their effective areas into several portions dedicated to specific spectral bands. This way, there is always trade-off between spectral and spatial resolution.

The MUSES9-DR innovative technology combines the real-time acquisition of a sufficient set of 4K level spectral images, with an AI-based spectral estimation technique to compose a full hypercube cube, without compromising spectral or spatial resolution. Advanced ultrafast spectral classification runs parallel with the video rate acquisition, displaying supervised or unsupervised classification maps in real time.

Specifications

Spectral Range 400-1000 nm
Spectral Bands 22
Light Throughput 96%
Spatial Resolution per Band 6.4 mpx
Lens C-Mount
Modes Transmission, reflection, fluorescence
Weight 310 g

Value Proposition

UHD/4K Image Quality for Visualizing Important Image Details

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).

Efficient Data Management and Spectral Cube Data on-line or off-line Scalability

MUSES9-DR captures and transmits 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. Spectral estimation-based hypercube’s dimensionality expansion dramatically reduces the requirements for both storage space and bandwidth.

Real-time Supervised and Unsupervised Spectral Mapping

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 is the hypercube data acquired and displayed in real-time, but also the analysis of hypercube data.

Applications

Remote Sensing

Drone Imagine

Plant Pathology

Accessories

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