Specim, Spectral Imaging Ltd is a European technology firm headquartered in

Oulu Oulu ( , ; sv, Uleåborg ) is a city, municipality and a seaside resort of about 210,000 inhabitants in the region of North Ostrobothnia, Finland. It is the most populous city in northern Finland and the fifth most populous in the country after: ...

, Finland. Specim manufactures and sells imaging spectrographs,

hyperspectral Hyperspectral imaging collects and processes information from across the electromagnetic spectrum. The goal of hyperspectral imaging is to obtain the spectrum for each pixel in the image of a scene, with the purpose of finding objects, identifyi ...

cameras and systems. Specim's airborne AISA hyperspectral cameras have been utilized for example in monitoring the environmental effects of major industrial catastrophes such as Deepwater Horizon oil spill and Red mud spill.Kaleva: Oulusta lähtee mittalaitteita ympäri maailmaa
.Mikkola, A, (Nov 16, 2010), Kaleva, Näkyvästä näkyvää. In 2010, Specim was widely credited for its Thermal Infrared Hyperspectral Cameras, including a position as a

Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation SPIE (formerly the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers, later the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) is an international not-for-profit professional society for optics and photonics technology, founded in 1955. I ...

finalist.The Prism Awards for Photonics
The 2010 Finalists
The credited Specim Owl is world's first Thermal

Hyperspectral Camera Hyperspectral imaging collects and processes information from across the electromagnetic spectrum. The goal of hyperspectral imaging is to obtain the spectrum for each pixel in the image of a scene, with the purpose of finding objects, identifyi ...

that can efficiently be used for outdoor surveillance and

UAV An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which includes adding a ground-based controller ...

applications without an external light source such as the Sun or the Moon.Frost&Sullivan, Technical Insights, Aerospace&Defence (Feb 2011)
World First Thermal Hyperspectral Camera for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
In 2013, together with Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich research centre, Specim developed and thoroughly tested the novel Hyplant airborne hyperspectral sensor. This was the first airborne sensor to map the fluorescence over large areas. Since then it has been used to map various types of vegetation all over Europe and also in the USA. This project is one step in assessing feasibility of possible new ESA satellite instrument that could provide global maps of vegetation fluorescence called the Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX).ESA (2014)
Glowing plants a sign of health
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Plant power from above
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