Patent ID: 8810650

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a spatial light modulator; a digital micromirror device comprising a two dimensional array of individually addressable mirrors and a processor, wherein a target is imaged as a target image onto the digital micromirror device; a pan-chromatic camera, wherein said digital micromirror device directs at least a first portion of the target image to said pan-chromatic imaging spectrometer; and a hyperspectral imaging spectrometer, wherein said digital micromirror device directs at least a second portion of the target image to said hyperspectral imaging spectrometer; wherein said processor communicates with said pan-chromatic camera and said hyperspectral imaging spectrometer, said processor comprising a computer program product for implementing a method of controlling the digital micromirror device, the computer program product comprising computer readable media having stored thereon computer executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the digital micromirror device to perform the following: track a current position, current positional velocity, and current positional acceleration of the target, estimate for a future time an estimated position, an estimated positional velocity, and an estimated positional acceleration of the target, track a current spectrum, a current effective spectral velocity, and a current effective spectral acceleration of the object, estimate an estimated spectrum, an estimated effective spectral velocity, and an estimated effective spectral acceleration of the object for a future time, and control an orientation of the spatial light modulator based on at least one of the estimated position, the estimated positional velocity, the estimated positional acceleration, the current spectrum, the current effective spectral velocity, and the current effective spectral acceleration of the object.