Digital Photography Systems
As the latest digital aerial cameras and software surpass all analog solutions, Airborne has identified one breakthrough technology as the very best: the UltraCam large-format digital camera developed in Austria by Vexcel Corporation (part of Microsoft Virtual Earth). Combining our expertise in aerial photography with Vexcel’s standard-setting digital photogrammetry, we can provide the high-quality, verifiable images you need to map the world – and the uncompromising accuracy to make decisions with confidence.
Our Vexcel UltraCam D features imagery with a better than 12-bit per pixel dynamic range (in contrast to film cameras at less than <br>8 bits per pixel) without any grain noise. The result is unrivaled radiometry with better matching accuracy, allowing for more flying days in marginal weather as well as better interpretability, better stereo and more successful automated processes.
Distributed parallel sensing via 8 optical cones assembles a large-format digital image in natural colour with false-colour infrared. Each of 13 area-array CCDs feeds signals into its own compact electronics setup and data path. The “master cone” provides a single-image coordinate system and control of geometric accuracy.
Each CCD array is supported by separate “private” processing and storage components, with capacity for dual-redundant storage. Using the UltraCam’s powerful onboard 15-CPU system, we can acquire images and begin preprocessing during flight. Digital images can be fed into existing photogrammetric workflows using no-cost redundancy to vastly improve automation.
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