MidOpt DB395/870 Dual Bandpass Absorptive Visible + NIR

DB395/870 Dual Bandpass Filter passes UV-Violet and infrared wavelengths, effectively blocking all green and red light. These filters have traditionally found use in NDVI-type imaging applications. When using a single camera modified for aerial agricultural surveillance, incorporation of these so-called “Superblue” or “Infrablue” filters allows reflected near-infrared light (745-970nm) to be captured in the camera sensor’s red channel and reflected violet light (375-425nm) to be captured in the sensor’s blue channel (the green channel is not used). Even when using an inexpensive consumer camera (that has first had its IR blocking filter removed), this easy separation then makes it possible to post-process the red and blue channels for NDVI by performing the calculation: NDVI = (red – blue) / (red + blue).