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Multspectral 5-Band Camera
In addition to our hyperspectral cameras, we have added a 5-band multispectral camera which costs much less. The filter bands are discrete narrow bands with no overlap which is typical for an RGB color sensor. The bands are:
Center Wavelength |
50% Transmission |
1% Tranmission |
490nm | 472-509nm | 466-519nm |
565nm | 551-577nm | 542-588nm |
660nm | 650-670nm | 640-679mn |
737nm | 728-746nm | 719-754nm |
832nm | 815-852nm | 796-868nm |
The filter also has a stepped thickness design where the thickness of the IR filters are thinner than the visible filters in order to compensate for the typical lens IR focal shift.
By taking a series of pictures with sufficient overlap, software can extract these bands are form new images of each band or can create a 5-layer datacube for further analysis.
We can install this filter on a sensor with the Color Filter Array (CFA) or for higher performance, we can remove the CFA to create a monochrome sensor and then install the multispectral filter on top. With a monochrome converted sensor, you have all the pixels under each filter stripe seeing the particular freqnency.