How to Use multispectral in a Sentence

multispectral

adjective
  • The multispectral imaging of the palimpsest was carried out in January 2020.
    Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The rover is outfitted with a multispectral microscope to take measurements of the regolith.
    Sam Zlotnik, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Juventas is equipped with a radar instrument that will be able to peer deep beneath the surface of the space rocks, while Milani has a multispectral imager to map minerals and dust on both asteroids.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Oct. 2024
  • In order to up the contrast, researchers used a multispectral imaging technique that detected color differences on the skin — even in the non-visible range.
    Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The other is multispectral, meaning it is based on specific wavelengths.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2014
  • They are equipped with high-resolution, multispectral cameras that will take snapshots of transformers, pole tops, cross arms and conductors that will be examined by experts on the ground.
    Sara Cardine, La Cañada Valley Sun, 13 Sep. 2019
  • New tech meets old parchment The technology that revealed the text consists of a multispectral camera and image-processing software.
    Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2023
  • But the success of multispectral imaging on cartonnage was more limited.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The images shared with Newsweek by Maxar Technologies were collected using a multispectral color infrared sensor, highlighting areas that have been spared from the fire alongside the damaged and burned regions.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
  • In the 1990s, Brigham Young University researchers photographed the surviving opened papyri using multispectral imaging, which deploys a range of wavelengths of light to illuminate the text.
    Henrik Knudsen, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
  • For all its multispectral multitasking, Mastcam-Z does have its limits.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Researchers used multispectral imaging, which relies on different wavelengths of light like ultraviolet and infrared, to reveal details in the manuscript that the naked eye could not spot.
    Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Satellites are being equipped with multispectral cameras, seeing machines that can operate at wavelengths and frequencies the human eye can’t.
    Hari Kunzru, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Now, using multispectral imaging technology, researchers have unveiled three lines of words hidden on the ancient text message.
    Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 16 June 2017
  • The system uses low-cost multispectral cameras to pinpoint methane release locations and quantify flow rates based on minute-by-minute measurements.
    Afdhel Aziz, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • In this case, the Cincinnati Art Museum is hoping to analyze the painting using other advanced technologies, such as multispectral imaging.
    Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Davis examined multispectral images of 10 pages from the Voynich manuscript.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2024
  • One of these instruments is a pair of identical multispectral color cameras to survey the asteroid's surface and create 3D topography maps.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Drones mounted with multispectral sensors are evaluating vegetation patterns on the tundra to help assess the impact of climate change on subsistence foods like salmonberries.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The discovery is due to the efforts of a team of undergraduate students at Rochester Institute of Technology, who built their own multispectral imaging system as part of a class project and managed to complete it despite the ongoing pandemic.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2020
  • And not just with visible light but with multispectral imagery, particularly thermal imaging, the most important for finding and outlining fire in its multiple levels of heat.
    James Conca, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • They are now described as hyperspectral instead of merely multispectral.
    New York Times, 28 June 2021
  • Artificial intelligence helps most of these tools organize and process information from their onboard sensors—often multispectral cameras, which can pick up on differences in the types of light reflected by plants.
    Molly Glick, Scientific American, 17 July 2023
  • The team was using multispectral imaging, an image enhancement technique that relies on wavelength bands across the electromagnetic spectrum, to improve the clarity of another inscription on the pottery shard that was already known to researchers.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 23 June 2017
  • The judges said the physics category winner, a Finnish video about multispectral scanning of forests by Samuli Junttila, also deserved special recognition for its original rap and professional production.
    John Travis, Science | AAAS, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Researchers also tested a fragment of a real mummy mask using multispectral imaging, which can detect a range of different colors by illuminating objects with different wavelengths of light.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Analysis is still ongoing, however, as archaeologists plan to further examine the paintings with multispectral imaging technologies to determine which colors have been lost or faded.
    Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The mission's payload will eventually include a multispectral imager, a magnetometer, and a gamma-ray spectrometer in order to understand Psyche's history.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2017
  • In addition to multispectral imaging, the researchers also used X-ray fluorescence, which surveys elemental composition, and fiber-optic reflectance spectroscopy, which analyzes pigments.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Jim Kellner, a professor at Brown University and Perennial’s chief scientist, explains that the company’s technology relies on multispectral satellite imagery.
    WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022

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