Table 2 Examples of optical and hyperspectral parameters to be set by the user prior to data acquisition

Exposure time

0.5 s

Image width passed through slit

3.85 μm^a

Exposures/frame

4

1.54 μm^a

Grating grooves/mm

50

Step size

0.8 μm

Center wavelength

600 nm

Number of steps (N_y)^b

250

Number of time-lapse acquisitions (N_t)^b

100

Acquisition frequency

10 s