IEEE P4001-update on progress towards a hyperspectral standard (Conference Presentation)

Hyper-spectral imaging is an innovative and exciting technology that holds incredible diagnostic, scientific and categorization power. However, fundamental instrument performance is not consistently well characterized, well understood or well represented to suit distinct application endeavors or commercial market expectations. Establishing a common language, technical specification, testing criteria, task-specific recommendations and common data formats are essential to allowing this technology to achieve its true altruistic and economic market potential. In 2018 the IEEE P4001 was formed to facilitate consistent use of terminology, characterization methods and data structures. This talk is a progress report to inform the hyper-spectral community of the status of the work-to-date, the interconnection with other standards and outline the road map for future work until publication of the standards in 2022.