Georgia Tech: Hyperspectral Imaging

Hyperspectral Imaging

Program ID: DEF 3003P
Program type: Short Courses (weekday)
CEUs: 2.0

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Program Administrator

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Georgia Tech Global Learning Center
(Georgia Tech Hotel)

Dr. Joseph Accetta

September 21, 2010

September 23, 2010

$1,695.00

Section ID: 10124/220411037

IMPORTANT: This course is restricted to U.S. citizens and all attendees are required to fill out the Access Eligibility Form indicating they meet the attendance requirements.

NOTES:
-- On the first day, check in at least 30 minutes before the class start time.
-- Discount available for companies that send 3 or more people to this course. Call 404-385-3501 to register your group.

-- Georgia Tech employees should call 404-385-3501 to register by phone, and have their PeopleSoft number ready.

Meeting time(s):
•Tuesday, September 21, 2010 (8:00 AM-5:00 PM)
•Wednesday, September 22, 2010 (8:00 AM-5:00 PM)
•Thursday, September 23, 2010 (8:00 AM-5:00 PM)

Course Description

Multispectral and hyperspectral imaging techniques are forms of remote imaging spectroscopy that rely on natural radiation sources in an uncontrolled environment. Explore remote spectral sensing techniques and significant technical issues associated with multispectral and hyperspectral imaging, including basic principles of spectroscopy, phenomenology of radiation-material interactions, fundamentals of hyperspectral signal processing techniques, and hyperspectral sensor design issues.

Who Should Attend

System analysts
Sensor engineers
Image analysts
Computer scientists involved in algorithm development
Technical procurement decision-makers

How You Will Benefit

Get the background and history of spectral sensing
Master basic principles of hyperspectral imaging
Know the issues and notation associated with hyperspectral processing including probability of detection, false alarm rates, and band selection
Learn the basis of radiation-material interaction for remote spectral sensing
Explore atmospheric corrections
Master image, signal and data-processing techniques including decision theory, spectral matching, principal component transformations, matched filters other detection theoretic techniques
Examine sensor design and signal-to-noise issues

What You Will Cover

Spectral Remote Sensing
Spectral Sensors
Modeling & Simulation Tools
Algorithms for Spectral Target Detection and Characterization

Course Materials

Participants will receive a copy of the course notes.

Prerequisites

A two-semester sequence of basic physics typical of most science and engineering curricula is helpful.

Certificate

This course is an elective for the Infrared & Electro-Optical Technology Certificate.

Security Requirements

Participants must be employees of U.S. government agencies or their contractors as well as U.S. citizens. To meet this requirement, you must submit the Access Eligibility Form.

The Instructors

Joseph Accetta, Ph.D., a Georgia Tech Research Institute principal research scientist and director of GTRI's Field Office in Albuquerque, N.M., is a researcher in hyperspectral and polarimetric sensing and has held research and management positions in remote sensing in the military, national laboratory and aerospace sectors including the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Air Force Research Laboratory. A fellow of the Optical Engineering Society, he is the executive editor and author of the Infrared and Electro-Optics Handbook.

Thomas Cooley, Ph.D., program manager for Hyperspectral Exploitation Program at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate, was the principal investigator for the space demonstration program, Warfighter-1. He has held research positions at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the French Space Agency, and published more than 30 conference papers. Cooley has been the cochair of the Committee on Data Fusion for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, regional director at-large for the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and is the chair for IEEE-GRSS Workshop on Aerosol Remote Sensing.

Ronald Lockwood, Ph.D. is the deputy program manager for the Imaging Spectroscopy Program at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate. His graduate education was in atomic collision physics and his research at AFRL has included atmospheric chemistry and, most recently, the development of both Fourier transform and dispersive imaging spectrometers and their application to Air Force problems. He is the coauthor of numerous publications and conference papers. Currently he is the deputy principal investigator and chief optical engineer for the development of a space-based imaging spectrometer, ARTEMIS.

J. Scott Tyo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona is a researcher in polarimetric and hyperspectral imaging with visible and near infrared light, processing of high-dimensional spectropolarimetric data, investigation of statistical properties of hyperspectral imagery, integration of polarimetric and spectral sensors and information, and the use of spectropolarimetry to improve imaging in scattering media. The author of numerous publications and the recipient of awards including the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award and UNM Outstanding Researcher Award, he has previously served on the staffs of the Naval Postgraduate School and the U.S. Air Force Research Lab. He has taught courses in spectral imagery, discrete-time signal processing and modern spectral estimation.