Advances in Hyperspectral Image Processing Techniques

Preface

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has been around more than three decades and also become a mature advanced remote sensing technology in many applications ranging from defense and intelligence, agriculture, environmental monitoring to food inspection and safety, and medical imaging. Since my first book, Hyperspectral Imaging: Techniques for Spectral Detection and Classification, was published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers in 2003, nearly 20 years have been passed. It has also been my 30 years of research devoted to HSI that has evidenced a rapid growth in remote sensing over the past years with tens of thousands of reports published every year in this fascinating area.

This book entitled “Advances in Hyperspectral Image Processing Techniques” does not intend to cover all the areas in hyperspectral imaging but rather addresses several key areas of interest in HSI based on my most recent research carried out in the Remote Sensing Signal and Image Processing Laboratory (RSSIPL) at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and the Center of Hyperspectral Imaging in Remote Sensing (CHIRS), Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China. As a result, the topics of many chapters in this book reflect this nature and are new results that have not been discussed and covered in any of my previous books. To make this book a valuable and useful reference, all contributors are experts in their own areas and were invited to write book chapters sharing their research experiences ...