Graphical user interface for single-pixel spectroscopy

Digital imaging spectroscopy combines image processing and optical spectroscopy such that each picture element (pixel) or group of pixels in a 2D scene also includes additional dimension(s) of spectral and/or temporal information. Imaging spectrophotometers developed at KAIROS are literally equivalent to hundreds of thousands of conventional spectrophotometers running in parallel, i.e., each pixel is functionally equivalent to a single `instrument'. Because of the amount of data acquired by this massively parallel technique--often in the gigabyte range for a single experiment--it was necessary to develop a new generation of graphical tools for data analysis and display.