Press Release: SPECIM and Forschungszentrum Jülich Sign a Contract for Development of Advanced Hyperspectral Imagers for Vegetation Research
Tue 21 Sep 2010 12:30:51 PM EEST
SPECIM, Spectral Imaging Ltd., the world-leading manufacturer of hyperspectral imaging products and solutions, is pleased to announce a new project with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, the largest research centre in Europe.
The first target of the HyPlant project is to develop a new-generation push-broom hyperspectral imager capable of collecting seamless VNIR and SWIR data from 380 to 2500 nm in a single, compact instrument. The instrument’s small size and light weight will enable its use as a field instrument, and its installation in various robotic systems as well as in small aircraft. Secondly, the project aims at developing a specific, high performance hyperspectral imager for monitoring sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence emitted by vegetation.
Forschungszentrum Jülich will exploit the new hyperspectral imagers in their large scale research projects which investigate the role of terrestrial vegetation in the global carbon cycle. Dr. Uwe Rascher from Forschungszentrum Jülich is excited about the new possibilities which the newly developed sensors will bring for their research; “Sensors developed in the HyPlant project will allow novel insight into the functional properties of plants and plant ecosystems by exploiting the fluorescence signal as an innovative remote sensing signal”.
About SPECIM, Spectral Imaging Ltd:
SPECIM is a world leading company for hyperspectral imaging instrumentation covering the electromagnetic spectrum all the way from UV through VNIR and SWIR up to LWIR region. SPECIM provides ImSpector imaging spectrographs, Spectral Cameras and full hyperspectral imaging solutions to a rapidly expanding number of industrial OEM customers and research organizations around the world. SPECIM’s SISU family provides turnkey Chemical Imaging solutions for pharmaceutical, food and agriculture, and mining industries. SPECIM's AISA family of airborne hyperspectral sensors provides market leading solutions for remote sensing, from small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems to full featured commercial, research and defense instruments.
SPECIM’s hyperspectral products are known for the highest performance, accuracy and cost-effectiveness. They are increasingly used in a wide range of applications such as non-contact precision color measurement, process analytical technology (PAT), biological and geological sciences, oil and gas exploration, chemical imaging, as well as airborne and terrestrial defense and security applications.
About Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
The Research Centre Jülich is one of the largest research centers in Europe and focuses besides research in structure of matter, energy, information technology, and life sciences on scientific research on dynamic processes in environment that govern biogeosystem performance in the future. Transdisciplinary cooperation is the characteristic strategy of the Research Centre Jülich. The Institute for Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere ICG-3: Phytosphere aims with its research to understand and apply the dynamics of processes in biogeosystems and the control mechanisms on scales from the molecular to the ecosystem level. The over 100 member of the institute, include more than 20 senior scientists and 15 PostDoc level researchers. A focus of its activities are the development and application of non-invasive imaging methods to quantitatively study dynamics of plant and ecosystem processes in space and time, on various scales. The non-invasive methods are used to study growth and transport as well as exchange processes between plants and their fluctuating environment.