Methods of increasing spectral resolution of imaging spectrometers built on the basis of multi–channel radiation detectors

The article proposes the methods of object shooting by means of a spectrometer based on a multi-channel radiation detector and further processing of its results allowing spectral resolution of such spectrometers significantly to increase with the same original spatial resolution. The mathematical model of the shooting process is provided. It is determined that restoration of spectral radiance of objects based on the shooting data using the proposed method is a mathematically incorrect inverse task. The Greville method, the method of wavelet trans-formation, the Tikhonov regularisation method, and the Godunov method were considered as methods for its solution. The results of computational modelling of the considered methods are shown and it is found that restoration of spectral radiance of objects based on the shooting data using the considered methods is possible and relative error of restoration is at a fraction of per cent scale. It is determined that the wavelet transformation method is an optimal method of solution of the incorrect spectral radiance restoration task. It is also shown that the proposed method of imaging spectrometry is applicable both when using matrix radiation detectors with in-creased number of narrow-band filters and when using widely spread standard three-channel matrix RGB detectors of radiation.