Bilateral Project Italia-Slovenia, SI18MO03 (2019 – 2022)
The present proposal is aimed at developing advanced non-invasive hyperspectral methods to monitor and preserve cultural heritage. In particular, a custom modular bushbroom VNIR (visible-near infrared) hyperspectral imaging (HSI) instrument, will be tested as a tool for monitoring cultural heritage. This new instrumentation has been developed by the Slovenian group and is characterized by a higher spectral and spatial resolution than most of the systems commercially available. Moreover, a portable FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared) instrument (Italian group) will be adapted to perform 2D mapping in-situ. To our knowledge wiskbroom FTIR HSI technology is not commercially available, and just few applications are reported in literature using customized instrumentations. The aim of this project is to realize a low-cost set up, exploiting the competences of the Slovenian group both in term of hardware and software.