Spectral Sciences Incorporated
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Spectral Sciences Incorporated (SSI), founded in 1981, is a research and development company located in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States.
Its primary focus is the development of concepts and prototype scientific software and instrumentation.
Areas of expertise include electro-optic remote sensing, atmospheric radiation transport, the science of combustion, computational physics, chemistry and molecular dynamics, energy management, 3-D and spectral scene modeling, spectroscopy, UV through IR optical signature analysis, tomography methods and analysis and electro-optical instrumentation development in support of phenomenological studies and new measurement concepts.
Products
FLAASH and QUAC, atmospheric correction codes which calculate spectrally resolved ground reflectance from hyperspectral imaging and multispectral imaging. Both codes are available as the Atmospheric Correction Module plug-in for ENVI.
MODTRAN radiative transfer code.
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