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Ah, Christmas! ✨ The time of year when we deck the halls, roast chestnuts, and, oh yes, open our homes to a mysterious, bearded man who sneaks in under the cover of darkness. No questions asked. Think about it: any other day of the year, a guy dressed head-to-toe in red, wielding a giant sack, creeping into your house in the middle of the night would prompt a 911 call and a swift lock change.   And how do you know the person coming to your house is who he claims to be? This fall, HySpex has been busy in our labs scanning a variety of arctic reindeer wool samples (yes, they are woolen!). Yesterday, we were visited by a very special guest - and a fraud. Would we be able to tell them apart? 👀 Check out our elaborate research document below to find out!

Excited to share a groundbreaking development that is set to revolutionize remote sensing! At Norsk Elektro Optikk AS (HySpex), alongside NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, ReSe Applications LLC, and Prediktera AB, we have developed an 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 that takes 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 to the next level. HySpex will have an exclusive license to sell this software solution. Imagine this: A drone collects hyperspectral data at 500MB per second. In 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭-𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, we: 🔷 Generate surface models 🔷 Georeference hyperspectral data 🔷 Perform atmospheric corrections 🔷 Run application-specific analyses (mineral maps) 🔷 Visualize everything in 3D on the ground station as a mesh And here’s the kicker — 𝐧𝐨 𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐧𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝. We’re delivering accurate results instantly. The impact? Nothing short of revolutionary. For industries like 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, this changes everything. Instantly identifying mineral compositions or tracking environmental changes in real-time is now a reality. But the applications go far beyond that: 🌱 𝐀𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: Precision crop monitoring and management 🌲 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲: Immediate detection of forest health or damage 🔎 𝐄𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠: Real-time tracking of pollution or climate changes 🛡️ 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞: Rapid situational awareness and decision-making The potential is 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴. In this video we are flying in Greece and what you see is showed in real time on the ground station in Norway over satellite link. We’re proud to be at the forefront of real-time hyperspectral innovation. If you’re working with hyperspectral data, drones, or remote sensing technologies, let’s connect and explore how this can transform your operations. The partners in the m4mining Horizon Europe project have utilized their background IP and developed their IP further in this project to enable these amazing results. Each partner has done incremental innovations on their own IP while together we have made an architectural innovation that will make an impact in the industry. Thanks for the support European Commission. #Innovation #HyperspectralImaging #RemoteSensing #DroneTech #RealTimeSolutions #TechnologyRevolution

A proud moment for the NEO team! Senior Research Scientist at NEO, Mikkel Brydegaard, is one of the recipients of this year's European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant! This 2.7M€ grant will fund the six-year HyperSense project, which aims to develop four new compact hyperspectral LiDAR prototypes providing real-time, full-waveform lidar data in hundreds of spectral bands from 200 nm to 2600 nm. Trond Løke, CEO at Norsk Elektro Optikk AS said the following: 💬 "This is an excellent opportunity to integrate our passive hyperspectral systems with the hyperspectral LiDAR technology Mikkel have been developing. This combination could become a crucial tool for environmental monitoring in the future." 👇 Link to the full story in the comments below 👇

A proud moment for the NEO team! Senior Research Scientist at NEO, Mikkel Brydegaard, is one of the recipients of this year's European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant! This 2.7M€ grant will fund the six-year HyperSense project, which aims to develop four new compact hyperspectral LiDAR prototypes providing real-time, full-waveform lidar data in hundreds of spectral bands from 200 nm to 2600 nm. Trond Løke, CEO at Norsk Elektro Optikk AS said the following: 💬 "This is an excellent opportunity to integrate our passive hyperspectral systems with the hyperspectral LiDAR technology Mikkel have been developing. This combination could become a crucial tool for environmental monitoring in the future." 👇 Link to the full story in the comments below 👇

📍 HySpex is at #AGU24 - The American Geophysical Union's annual meeting in Washington, D.C.! 🌌 Come by our booth to learn more about HyperNOR - our hyperspectral instrument for use in microsatellites. 💬 While you're there, don't hesitate to strike up a chat with Julio Hernandez, our Applications Group Manager, and Jeffrey Finkelstein, our Sales & System Engineer! We're always happy to meet new faces. See you, D.C.! #AGU24 #RemoteSensing #HyperspectralImaging #Space

📍 HySpex is at the 35th annual Geological Remote Sensing Group (GRSG) conference! We're proud to be a gold sponsor of the event and we're very excited for three days of inspiring talks and exciting meetings. 🔸 Our hyperspectral applications engineer, Justus Constantin Hildebrand, is hosting a talk at 10:30 on Wednesday, titled "𝘏𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘺𝘱𝘳𝘶𝘴 – 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥-𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥, 𝘜𝘈𝘝 𝘕𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨". Don't miss it! Come by our booth for a chat! #GRSG24 #Geology #RemoteSensing #HyperspectralImaging

Revolutionizing Food Quality with Hyperspectral Imaging! 🍅✨ What if cherry tomatoes could taste even better? Our Breeze software suite empowers organizations to implement real-time industrial applications using hyperspectral imaging, making food quality control faster, smarter, and more efficient than ever before. 💻 Recently, our software was successfully used with HySpex hyperspectral cameras during an in-line test of cherry tomato sweetness. Together with our partner Norsk Elektro Optikk AS, we’re proud to be part of the DigiFoods SFI initiative – an innovative collaboration between leading organisations like Nofima, WIIG GARTNERI AS, and SINTEF, all striving to create smart sensor solutions that maximize food resource use while guaranteeing top-notch quality for consumers. 🥗🌍 #HyperspectralImaging #FoodInnovation #SmartSensors #Sustainability #FoodQuality #DigiFoods 🌎🍅 Lars Gidskehaug Julio Hernandez Karen Wahlstrøm Sanden Jens Petter Wold

📍 HySpex is at #Whispers24! Despite the conference name, we've actually got a lot we'd like to say out loud - We have no less than 3 talks at this year's conference, hosted by some of our incredibly skilled employees. 🔸 "𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘏𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘩-𝘈𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯" hosted by Stephane Nicolas and Ole Bjørn Eithun Pedersen today at 14:00 in room B. 🔸 "𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘪𝘹𝘦𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵" hosted by Trond Løke on Tuesday at 14:00 in room C. 🔸 "𝘏𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦" hosted by Dr. Friederike Koerting on Tuesday at 16:20 in room C. Make sure to drop by our booth too! We've brought some goodies, including our UAV solution (featuring a Mjolnir VS-620), some sunglasses, some custom-made beanies, and a highly informative roll-up banner 👀

Something is stirring on the ground floor! 🪛🌌 As Norsk Elektro Optikk AS expands into space, we are constructing an ISO class 7 cleanroom at our offices in Oslo. Soon we'll be using this cleanroom to put together hyperspectral imagers for use in microsatellites. For this purpose, cleanliness is crucial: A dust particle inside a hyperspectral camera orbiting Earth could compromise the instrument's image quality. Satellite payloads must also be kept clean to avoid contamination of other instruments flying on the same platform. The air entering the cleanroom will be filtered for dust and other particles. Additionally, anyone entering the cleanroom must wear appropriate attire, including a lab coat, hairnet, and gloves. Having our own in-house cleanroom as opposed to renting one externally will increase efficiency and flexibility in product development, and we consider this to be a part of our commitment to innovation and quality. This will help us achieve great things, and we can't wait for it be finished. Thanks to Bryn Byggklima AS for helping with the construction of the room!

🌍 December is conference season at HySpex! During the second week of December our team will be attending not one, not two, but THREE major events: 📍 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 | 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶, 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 | 𝗗𝗲𝗰 𝟵–𝟭𝟭 🎤 Trond Løke (CEO): "Make Every Pixel Count" 🎤 Dr. Friederike Koerting (Applications Specialist): "Hyperspectral imaging in mining: From Promise to Practice" 🎤 Stephane Nicolas (Head of Optics, R&D) & Ole Bjørn Eithun (Research Scientist): "Advancements in Hyperspectral Imaging for High-Altitude Missions and Methane Leak Detection" 📍 𝗚𝗥𝗦𝗚 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 | 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶, 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆 | 𝗗𝗲𝗰 𝟭𝟬–𝟭𝟮 🎤 Justus Constantin Hildebrand (Hyperspectral Applications Engineer): "Hyperspectral Mine Face Monitoring in the Republic of Cyprus – Comparing Reflectance Data from Platforms Ground-Based, UAV Nadir, and Oblique Scanning" 🗪 Vitaliy Yurchenko (Sales Manager): Representing HySpex 📍 𝗔𝗚𝗨𝟮𝟰 | 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗗.𝗖., 𝗨𝗦 | 𝗗𝗲𝗰 𝟵–𝟭𝟯 🗪 Jeffrey Finkelstein (Sales and System Engineer) and Julio Hernandez (Applications Group Manager) will be representing HySpex at this premier geoscience event. Whether you’re in Helsinki, Frascati, or Washington D.C., we’d love to connect and discuss how our solutions can drive innovation in your field. Be sure to catch our talks at Whispers and GRSG for some valuable insights into the world of hyperspectral imaging. See you there! 👋 #Whispers2024 #GRSG2024 #AGU24 #HyperspectralImaging