Dr.Ratnadeep R. Deshmukh

Introduction

To produce competent professionals through quality research using remote sensing focusing real-life problems by inculcating ethical values, The researchers at the multispectral research Lab are studying and applying methods for identifying and mapping materials through spectroscopic remote sensing (called imaging spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging, imaging spectrometry, ultraspectral imaging, etc), on the earth and throughout the solar system using laboratory, field, airborne and spacecraft spectrometers.

Spectral Library

Researchers at the Multispectral Research Laboratory have measured the spectral reflectance of thousands of materials in the lab and compiled them in the MSL Spectral Library.

1. The spectral library was assembled to facilitate laboratory and field spectroscopy and remote sensing for identifying and mapping minerals, vegetation, and manmade materials.
2. For many of the samples, wavelength coverage spans the ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared, mid-infrared, and far-infrared regions (0.2 to 200 microns).
3. A wide range of materials are included in the library:

• Minerals
• Soils (including rocks, and mineral mixtures)
• Coatings on rock surfaces
• Liquids, including mixtures of liquids, water and other volatiles, and frozen volatiles
• Organic compounds, including biochemical constituents of plants and chemical compounds
• Manmade materials, including materials introduced into the environment by human activity
• Vegetation and other biologic materials

** Note : The Spectral database will be made available to researchers via an Internet source. There will be no charge for spectral samples made available and downloaded via the Internet.