Bernier highlighted in January, 2023 the South Africa: Richtersveld World Heritage Site. It has the highest diversity of succulent plants in the world (4,849 species, of which 1,940 are endemic), as well as eerie coastal mists, alluvial diamonds and truly indigenous cultures.
Hyperspectral technology has been around for a few decades. Starting with Landsat 8,
Pushbroom methodology was applied
Major Disadvantage.
The multidimensional datasets can be massive, where the map of a county would be in the hundreds of terabytes. Therefore, improvements in hyperspectral resolution improve the storage requirements and price increases. Initially developed for mining and geology, today, there's a wide range of hardware sizes and applications:
From a segmented set of wavelets such as with Landsat to a continuous spectra with hyperspectral.
Read on .... with case histories and references.