Hyperspectral Imagery Sensing (HIS) is widely gained tremendous popularity in many research areas such as remotely sensed satellite imaging and aerial reconnaissance. HIS is an important technique with the measurement, analysis, and interpretation of spectra acquired sensing scene an airborne or satellite sensor. The development of sensor technology brought the developing of collecting image da...

Hyperspectral imaging has become a very active field in both theoretical and application-related research in remote sensing since its emergence in the 1980s [1], [2]. The first airborne hyperspectral sensor, called Airborne Imaging Spectrometer (AIS), was designed in the early 1980s [3]; an advanced airborne sensor, i.e., Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS), began to provide...

Hyperspectral sensors are devices that acquire images with narrow bands (less than 20nm) with continuous measurement. It extracts spectral signatures of objects or materials to be observed. Hyperspectral have more than 200 bands. Hyperspectral remote sensing has been used over a wide range of applications, such as agriculture, forestry, geology, ecological monitoring, atmospheric compositions a...

In recent years the use of remote sensing imagery to classify and map vegetation over different spatial scales has gained wide acceptance in the research community. Many national and regional datasets have been derived using remote sensing data. However, much of this research was undertaken using multispectral remote sensing datasets. With advances in remote sensing technologies, the use of hyp...

Since the advent of remote sensing in the second half of 20th century, nowadays there have been great changes in theory and technology. The advent of hyperspectral was one of the most significant breakthroughs in remote sensing. Hyperspectral remote sensing has higher spectral resolution as the same time retain higher spatial resolution, so its capability of distinguishing the different and des...

A LMOST A DECADE after the milestone special issue of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (TGRS) dedicated to the analysis of hyperspectral image data, edited by Prof. Landgrebe, Prof. Serpico, Prof. Crawford, and Prof. Singhroy [1], it is a great pleasure to introduce this new special issue on hyperspectral image and signal processing. In the intervening years, interest in h...

I n recent years, it has become clear that hyperspectral imaging has formed a core area within the geoscience and remote sensing community. Armed wi th advanced optical sensing technology, hyperspectral imaging offers high spectral resolution—a hyperspectral image can contain more than 200 spectral channels (rather than a few channels as in multispectral images), covering visible and near-infra...

Hyperspectral imaging comprises the technologies that incorporates remote sensing and analysis of an object or specific area of the earth at different distances with very large number of bands. Currently, a wide range of hyperspectral data sets are obtained continuously, in addition to conventional multispectral remote sensing images, and presented to users by institutions for both commercial a...

In the last few decades, researchers have developed a plethora of hyperspectral Earth Observation (EO) remote sensing techniques, analysis and applications. While hyperspectral exploratory sensors are demonstrating their potential, Sentinel-2 multispectral satellite remote sensing is now providing free, open, global and systematic high resolution visible and infrared imagery at a short revisit ...

Small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based remote sensing is a rapidly evolving technology. Novel sensors and methods are entering the market, offering completely new possibilities to carry out remote sensing tasks. Three-dimensional (3D) hyperspectral remote sensing is a novel and powerful technology that has recently become available to small UAVs. This study investigated the performance of UA...