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[TomK]

The latest link is about mapping invasive species not about detecting cannabis and shows what "hyperspectral sensing/imaging" is best used for, which is not detecting small plots of cannabis plants, especially if there are plenty of other plants around. The article is also 10 years after the initial and speculative Orincon Corp. article and still talks about potential rather than any hard facts about cannabis detection.

We've gone from a spectral analyzer to hyperspectral sensing and now mapping invasive species.

So:

http://pubs.drdc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc76/p530172.pdf - please read the conclusions carefully and this is in a place where cannabis plants should be much easier to spot.

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA484268&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf - a proposal, not a scientific paper. Again, note the conclusions and the amount of infrastructure required to even make this a viable proposal.

Wao - I'm an astronomer/astrophysicist, my specialty is infrared spectroscopy, especially in the thermal infrared but I'm also pretty knowledgeable in infrared imaging and near-infrared spectroscopy as well as infrared instrumentation and optics. I spent some years involved in optical spectroscopy as well (i.e., visual wavelengths). Among other things I've used infrared spectrograph to detect and characterize molecules several hundred light years away in space and also those in our atmosphere. In other words I know a little bit about spectroscopy and imaging.

Tom