I work in the borehole instrumentation industry, and lots of our customers get hyperspectral data from core. I'm working on a new data delivery and management platform, and I've made sure our data structures can handle hyperspectral images. Multidimensional arrays are front and centre. I too think of spectral images as "cubes".
One thing that stems from this is the question of how you visualise it. False colour mapping?
One thing that stems from this is the question of how you visualise it. False colour mapping?