The Applied Remote Sensing Cluster of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is responsible for the establishment of the payload ground segment for the future German hyperspectral satellite mission EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program), which is planned to be launched in 2012. EnMAP covers the spectrum from 420 nm to 2450 nm with a spectral resolution of at least 10 nm and a spatial res...

Hyperspectral sensors represent the most advanced instruments currently available for remote sensing of the Earth. The high spatial and spectral resolution of the images supplied by systems like the Airborne Visible Infra-Red Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS), developed by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, allows their exploitation in diverse applications, such as detection and control of wildland fi...

Spectral mixture analysis provides an efficient mechanism for the interpretation and classification of remotely sensed multidimensional imagery. It aims to identify a set of reference signatures (also known as endmembers) that can be used to model the reflectance spectrum at each pixel of the original image. Thus, the modeling is carried out as a linear combination of a finite number of ground ...

With the development of sensor technology, the spectral resolution of remote sensing image is continuously improved. The appearance of the hyperspectral remote sensing is a tremendous leap in the field of remote sensing. The increasing availability of hyperspectral data and image has enriched us with better and finer data and it also enable us a much stronger ability to identify features. Howev...

This paper investigates the efficiency of spectral screening as a tool for speedup in hyperspectral image processing. Spectral screening is a technique for reducing the hyperspectral data to a representative subset of spectra. The subset is formed such that any two spectra in it are dissimilar and, for any spectrum in the original image cube, there is a similar spectrum in the subset. The simil...

Hyperspectral imaging has been widely studied in many applications; this type of sensors is imaging spectrometry sensors, which divide the waveband into hundreds of contiguous narrow bands for analysis. These images provide much richer and finer spectral information than traditional multispectral images do. Hyperspectral satellite images require enormous amounts of data space. NASA's satellite ...

During the last years commercial hyperspectral imaging sensors have been miniaturized and their performance has been demonstrated on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). However currently the commercial hyperspectral systems still require minimum payload capacity of approximately 3 kg, forcing usage of rather large UAVs. In this article we present a lightweight hyperspectral mapping system (HYMSY) f...