multispectral

American  

[muhl-tee-spek-truhl, muhl-tahy-] / ˌmʌl tiˈspɛk trəl, ˌmʌl taɪ- /

adjective

1. (of an airborne camera or scanner) capable of sensing and recording radiation from invisible as well as visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Etymology

Origin of multispectral

First recorded in 1965–70; multi- + spectral

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multispectral

Operating from Low Earth Orbit, this top-rated multispectral satellite captures images across many wavelengths to survey terrain, monitor crops and track shipping.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

The technology could eventually enable a new generation of multispectral cameras with applications in areas such as skin cancer detection, food safety monitoring, and large scale agriculture.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2026

They also want to incorporate multispectral illumination, which would allow the acquisition of additional physiological parameters including oxygen saturation and blood flow velocity and the quantitative assessment of parameters such as vessel number and volume.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024

The multispectral cameras that Mosse and Tweeten used for parts of “Broken Spectre” and for Mosse’s “drone maps” are able to see environmental conditions invisible to the naked eye.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

In 2017, the pages were re-analysed using state-of-the-art multispectral imaging.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2022

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