HI-Spectral

HI-SNAP

Traditional high-perf snapshot hyperspectral systems are too large to deploy on drones and cubesats

Why it mattersHI-Spectral, LLC specializes in the design and manufacturing of novel Snapshot Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) Systems. HI-Spectral's technology was originally designed at the University of Hawaii for the DKIST telescope, the largest and most advanced Solar Telescope in the world. Our technology has the capability to efficiently capture detailed chemical composition information (Spectrum) for each pixel in an image, in one exposure (snapshot). Our avant-garde design resulted in a very compact and robust customizable instrument able to generate data with high spectral resolution at high speed. Currently, existing compact snapshot HSI systems are filter based and cannot generate reliable, real time and high resolution data. And the systems that can are too big and fragile to be deployed on drones and UAVs. That is the problem HI-Spectral has solved. Our system is ~20x smaller than existing systems, it is very robust and not sensitive to vibration/misalignment. This was achieved by leveraging micro optics manufacturing capability provided by the semiconductor R&D Division of CANON in Japan via a close working relationship developed over the past 7 years.