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Course Introduction to Hyperspectral Chemical Imaging

February 14, 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia, WSC-7 preconference course
Contact person: James Burger (james.burger@burgermetrics.com)

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The aim of the course is to provide participants with a basic ‘hands on’ introduction to hyperspectral chemical imaging. Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) adds a new dimension, spectroscopy, to traditional imaging techniques. Conversely, it adds spatial information to traditional spectroscopic analysis methods. This hybridization of imaging and spectroscopy demands proper multivariate chemometric techniques to fully enable the optimum extraction of relevant chemical information. It also enables a rich source of data to visually extend and explore the implications of use (and misuse) of chemometric techniques. This imaging workshop will combine lectures and live demonstrations presenting some of the basic developments in hyperspectral imaging, and explore extensions of chemometrics to HSI image processing. Topics discussed will include instrumentation, exploratory analysis, classification, regression, and spectral pre-processing. Each section will begin with a mixture of basic theory and fundamental application results, followed by an interactive examination of class-room samples.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own application specific samples (up to 50x30 mm) to enhance discussion and learning. 

Audience and language

This course is intended for students, specialists, and scientists with a very basic knowledge of spectroscopy and chemometrics. No previous experience with HSI is expected. The course language will be English.

Instructor

Dr. James Burger (BurgerMetrics SIA, Jelgava, Latvia)

Fee and deadlines

Fee includes all course materials, including a copy of JIMIA, an exploratory software tool for examining hyperspectral images.

• Early registration, till December 15, 2009 — 200 EUR
• Registration after December 15, 2009  — 250 EUR

Deadline — January 30, 2010

Upon cancellation until twenty days before the start of the course, half of the course fee is due. Cancellations made less than twenty days before the start date of the course will not be refunded. In case you cannot attend, you can let someone else take your place without additional cost. Course organizers have the right to cancel a course until twenty days before the start of the course, in which case a complete refund will be provided. Course organizers also have the right to reject the application of course candidates without further motivation.

About

James Burger began his chemometrics career at the University of Washington (Bruce Kowalski), receiving a Masters degree in 1985. After many years of commercial scientific and business related software development in the Seattle, USA area, he returned to PhD studies in 2002 at Aalborg University, Esberg, Denmark (Kim Esbensen) continuing in 2004 at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Umea, Sweden (Paul Geladi) His PhD (2006) research focused on the extension and application of chemometric principles to HSI. James is the founder and director of BurgerMetrics SIA, Jelgava, Latvia, offering complete HSI systems for both laboratory and online process image acquisition, customized HSI analysis software, and general HSI consulting and training services. He continues to explore novel extensions of Chemometrics and the development of interactive software to aid in the interpretation of HSI data.

For additional information, Dr. Burger's PhD thesis entitled "Hyperspectral NIR Image Analysis: Data Exploration, Correction, and Regression" can be downloaded at: http://diss-epsilon.slu.se/archive/00001200/