Instrumentation used for health monitoring mounted on the rotor can come loose under centrifugal forces and vibrations. If not caught in time they can fail, and cause long delays, expense, and serious safety issues. This new system helps prevent that by capturing clear video of the rotor while it is spinning at full speed. The device will permit operators to watch “still” video images in a live feed of the spinning rotor during wind tunnel testing.

Instrumentation used for health monitoring mounted on the rotor can come loose under centrifugal forces and vibrations. If not caught in time they can fail, and cause long delays, expense, and serious safety issues. This new system helps prevent that by capturing clear video of the rotor while it is spinning at full speed. The device will permit operators to watch “still” video images in a live feed of the spinning rotor during wind tunnel testing.

Hyperspectral imaging has important benefits in remote sensing and material identification.  This paper describes a class of hyperspectral imaging systems which utilize a novel optical processor that provides video-rate hyperspectral datacubes.  These systems have no moving parts and do not operate by scanning in either the spatial or spectral dimension.  They are capable of recording a full three-dimensional (two spatial, one spectral) hyperspectral datacube with each video frame, ideal for recording data on transient events, or from unstabilized platforms.

Hyperspectral imaging has important benefits in remote sensing and target discrimination applications.  This paper describes a class of snapshot-mode hyperspectral imaging systems which utilize a unique optical processor that provides video-rate hyperspectral datacubes.  This system consists of numerous parallel optical paths which collect the full three-dimensional (two spatial, one spectral) hyperspectral datacube with each video frame and are ideal for recording data from transient events, or on unstable platforms.

Instrumentation used for health monitoring mounted on the rotor can come loose under centrifugal forces and vibrations. If not caught in time they can fail, and cause long delays, expense, and serious safety issues. This new system helps prevent that by capturing clear video of the rotor while it is spinning at full speed. The device will permit operators to watch “still” video images in a live feed of the spinning rotor during wind tunnel testing.