Short Wave InfraRed(SWIR) spectral imager is good at detecting difference between materials and penetrating fog and mist. High spectral resolution SWIR hyperspectral imager plays a key role in developing earth observing technology. Hyperspectral data cube can help band selections that is very important for multispectral imager design. Up to now, the spectral resolution of many SWIR hyperspectral imagers is about 10nm. A high sensitivity airborne SWIR hyperspectral imager with narrower spectral band will be presented. The system consists of TMA telescope, slit, spectrometer with planar blazed grating and high sensitivity MCT FPA. The spectral sampling interval is about 3nm. The IFOV is 0.5mrad. To eliminate the influence of the thermal background, a cold shield is designed in the dewar. The pixel number of spatial dimension is 640. Performance measurement in laboratory and image analysis for flight test will also be presented.
Space-borne hyperspectral imager is capable of providing large amount of image data with high spatial and spectral resolution. However, with the increase of the resolution, the volume and weight of conventional dispersive (prism/grating) imaging spectrometers also increase significantly. Meanwhile, the demand for the system sensitivity becomes even higher. In this paper, the application of Integrated Stepwise Filter (ISF) in infrared hyperspectral imaging technology was analyzed, including optical efficiency, instrumental background radiation suppression, spectral time delay integration (TDI) and other performances. Several methods which can enhance the system sensitivity were also provided. A compact short-wave infrared (SWIR) hyperspectral imager prototype covering the spectral range of 2.0μm-2.5μm with 6 TDI stages was designed and implemented. The results of the imaging experiment demonstrated that ISF has great application prospects in the field of high sensitivity space-borne hyperspectral imagery.
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