The Boeing Company

Shane D Arnott

Robert J Klein

Jason Jeremy Foenander

Andrew T Sheppard

Bradley J Thompson

Daryl N Raggatt

Nigel Kai Hui Toh

Niall J O'Shea

Adnan Raghdo

Unmanned aircraft

A system and method for surveying a region of interest with a mobile platform having a sensor having a plurality of narrow spectral bands spanning a contiguous frequency space is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises generating a simulated spectral representation of a region of interest, identifying at least one of the plurality of materials as a material of interest within the region of interest, identifying other of the plurality of materials not identified as a material of interest as background materials within the region of interest, sensing, with the sensor, spectral data in the region of interest in the plurality of narrow spectral bands, selecting and transmitting only the spectral data of the one of more of the plurality of spectral bands of the sensor according to the simulated spectral representation of the material of interest.

Method and apparatus for on-board software selection of bands of a hyperspectral sensor based on simulated spectral representation of the region of interest

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Brisbane, Australia

Shane D Arnott