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Back in Time
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
Under a Jet Propulsion Laboratory SBIR, Cambridge Research and Instrumentation Inc., developed a new class of filters for the construction of small, low-cost multispectral imagers. The VariSpec liquid crystal enables users to obtain multi-spectral, ultra-high resolution images using a monochrome CCD camera. Application areas include biomedical imaging, remote sensing, and machine vision.