Hyperspectral imaging

Hyperspectral imaging is like having a superpower that can see things that our eyes can't. Imagine you have a magic camera that can take pictures of things and show you what they are made of.

Normally, when you take a picture with a regular camera, you will see the colors of things. But with hyperspectral imaging, you can see every single color that something is made up of.

For example, imagine you are looking at a bowl of fruit. With hyperspectral imaging, you could see every single color of the different fruits in the bowl. You could see the red of the apples, the orange of the oranges, the yellow of the bananas, and so on.

Scientists and engineers use hyperspectral imaging to study all sorts of things. They use it to study the earth and its vegetation, to look at the stars and planets in space, and to study different kinds of materials like metals and plastics.

Hyperspectral imaging works by taking pictures of things using special cameras that can see more colors than our eyes can. Then, scientists can analyze those pictures and figure out what things are made of based on the colors they see.

So, hyperspectral imaging is kind of like a superpower that scientists and engineers use to see and learn about things that normal cameras and our eyes can't see.