1. A sensor for collecting image data for use in an overhead imaging system that moves relative to a region of interest below the overhead imaging system, the sensor comprising: an imaging sensor having an imaging surface area that has an imaging width, the imaging sensor configured to capture image data from the region of interest below the overhead imaging system at a frame capture rate, the region of interest having a plurality of features; a plurality of spectral filters, the spectral filters in aggregate covering a spectral imaging portion of the imaging surface area of the imaging sensor, each spectral filter having a spectral filter width at least substantially the same as the imaging width, and each spectral filter having a spectral filter height greater than a minimum filter height, wherein the minimum filter height equals a ratio of (1) a rate at which the region of interest appears to move across the imaging sensor due to relative motion of the overhead imaging system with respect to the region of interest to (2) the frame capture rate of the imaging sensor; and a controller configured to control the imaging sensor to capture the image data at the frame capture rate, wherein a frame of the image data comprises a plurality of sub-images, each sub-image corresponding image data captured through one of the plurality of spectral filters, each sub-image including one or more of the plurality of features of the region of interest, the controller further configured such that a portion of the region of interest is captured in a first sub-image of a first frame and said portion of the region of interest is captured in a second sub-image of a second frame, said second frame successive to said first frame, and said second sub-image corresponding to the same spectral filter as said first sub-image, wherein the first frame and the second, successive frame are configured to be combined to form an output image by matching features from the portion of the region of interest present in the image data captured from the first sub-image and the second sub-image.