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Imaging Spectroscopy

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Imaging spectroscopy can be defined as acquisition of images in hundreds of contiguous, registered, spectral bands such that for each pixel a radiance spectrum can be derived. The basic concepts and general terminology such as continuum and depth of absorption have been adapted from spectroscopy. Various high resolution spectral features of minerals studied in laboratory form the backbone of imaging spectrometry data interpretation. A number of aerial imaging spectrometer sensors have been flown by different countries.

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  1. Formerly Professor, Earth Resources Technology, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India

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Gupta, R.P. (2018). Imaging Spectroscopy. In: Remote Sensing Geology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55876-8_14

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