ITRES Research was established in 1979 by our founder,
Dr. Clifford Anger.

Our original mandate was to develop useful scientific applications for the new field of Charge Coupled Device (CCD) technology - which we have pursued and expanded on with great success ever since.

Our sustained commercial success began in 1989 with the introduction of the CASI (Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager). This advanced imaging system utilized a spectrograph and CCD technology to make accurate and reliable pushbroom spectrographic imaging a reality. Since then we have improved the original CASI significantly, and greatly expanded our line of products to include imagers operating in other important optical regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, including SWIR, MWIR, and thermal IR. In many cases, our product developments were commercial industry-firsts, allowing us to provide our clients with high-performance imaging technologies available nowhere else.

ITRES launched ITRES Applications in 1996, in order to fill a growing worldwide demand for high-resolution hyperspectral imaging services, and to help to develop this newly budding market. Since that time our applications group has been met with great success in many operational campaigns around the world.

With the turning of the millennium, ITRES started to build on its commercial success by pushing the limits of hyperspectral technology into new regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. A thermal mapping sensor (TABI-320), SWIR hyperspectral sensor (SASI) and wider-swath high performance VNIR sensor (CASI-1500) were all introduced between 2000 and 2005.

The simultaneous collection of hyperspectral data across multiple spectral regions was introduced early in 2006 with the launch of our MuSIC™ (Multiple Sensor Instrument Controller) system. Since this time, we have a growing list of clients who are using 2, 3, 4, even five of our imagers simultaneously in the same aircraft to acquire multiple spectrum datasets over the same target, thereby increasing their project capabilities while greatly reducing their operational field costs.

Along with the MuSIC™ system we introduced the TASI-600, our high-performance hyperspectral thermal imaging sensor. It has been seeing steady and growing commercial operational work since early 2007. Remote operation capability was introduced shortly afterwards, allowing airborne hyperspectral data collection to be controlled from the ground using an existing R/F link. To accommodate the use of small aircraft to be used for hyperspectral data collection, we began to offer a miniaturized electronics controller that could be integrated with the sensor head in a small package.

In 2008, we concluded our development of a hyperspectral midwave Infrared imager, sensitive to wavelengths between 3-5 microns. The MASI (Midwave IR Airborne Spectrographic Imager) was introduced in mid-2008 and provides 64 spectral bands, useful for bio-chemical detection and fire mapping. Later that year, work started for a new broadband thermal imager to replace our popular TABI-320. The TABI-1800 features a revolutionary new optical system with much an 1800-pixel swath, internally cooled array, and low thermal drift. No other thermal airborne broadband imager on the market can match the TABI-1800's performance.

2008 also saw us integrate a gyro-stabilized mount (Leica PAV30) for the first time with a multiple sensor imaging package (CASI-1500 and SASI-600 VNIR/SWIR) and see the benefits to image quality that follow from doing so.

Although we've been offering the ability for our sensor clients to conduct their own robust and precise sensor calibrations since the mid-1990's, our sensor calibration system software underwent a complete renewal development program in 2008. SpaRCal™ the Spectral and Radiometric Calibration system, was released in early 2009. This smart, feature-rich software (Windows or Linux-based) guides the user through the processing and analysis of calibration data and creation of RAD files for our imager products. Along with SpaRCal™, the ITRES motorized calibration cart option was also released. This sealed cart allows users to easily perform their own sensor calibrations without needing dedicated calibration
room facilities.

TABI-1800 development work continued through 2009, with this ground-breaking thermal imager successfully undergoing its inaugural test flight in March 2010. Work is continuing in parallel on our new Real-Time Processing System (RTPS) that will permit in-flight hyperspectral or broadband geocorrection, yet another industry-first.

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from you!