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Environmental monitoring from the air with hyperspectral reporters

Environmental monitoring from the air with hyperspectral reporters

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Published: 29 April 2025

Environmental biotechnology

Nature Biotechnology

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Hyperspectral reporters allow bacteria on the ground to be imaged by high-flying drones, expanding environmental monitoring to large outdoor areas.

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**Fig. 1: Hyperspectral reporters enable remote biosensing from engineered microbes.**

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Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Maxwell Z. Wilson
Department of BioEngineering, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Maxwell Z. Wilson

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M.Z.W. is a co-founder and the chief scientific officer of Integrated Biosciences, a biotechnology company developing therapeutics unrelated to the environmental sensing technologies discussed in this article.