Hyperspectral Imaging Workshop 2015

Within the frame of the FP7 SLOPE project (Integrated processing and control systems for sustainable forest production in mountain areas) and the BiRT (Bio- Resources & Technologies Tulln) Workshop Series, a Workshop on Hyperspectral Imaging at BOKU-UFT in Tulln will be held on Friday, 20th of March 2015. Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) is the combination of imaging and spectroscopy. Spectroscopic analysis deals with the entire light spectrum from visible to infrared with light intensity captured as a function of wavelength. By HSI hundreds of spectroscopic bands in each pixel of an image can be gathered. Different chemical compounds are characterized by specific reflections and absorbances representing spectroscopic signatures. The layered spectroscopic signatures at a given location containing up to hundreds of layers of spectra (combined to the so called ,hypercube‘) are typically analyzed by statistical procedures like PCA or PLS to identify specific combinations of spectra typical for a given chemical compound. Multivariate Image Analysis (MIA) applied to the resulting spatial representations of the signatures allow for the detection and spatial interpretation of the defined features. Having a long tradition in airborne imaging, during the last years, HSI has been increasingly applied in many different fields of sciences (e.g. Life Sciences, Food Sciences, Pharmaceutics, Biology, Materials Science). The aim of the workshop is especially to explore the potential of HSI for the analysis of - wood - food - and other renewable biomaterials