A Chinese institute claimed to have successfully developed a 100 megapixel camera which could produce high-resolution imaging in the fields of aerial mapping, disaster monitoring and intelligent transportation systems.
The IOE3-Kanban
camera was developed by the Institute of Optics and Electronics under
the Chinese Academy of Sciences making it China’s highest pixel camera,
CAS said in a statement.
The camera is capable of producing images with 10,240 x 10,240 pixels, the statement said.
Moreover, it is small and light, with its widest part measuring only 19.3 cm, state-run Xinhua
quoted the statement as saying, adding that it can be used at
temperatures ranging from minus 20 degrees to 55 degrees centigrade.
Its
high sensitivity and high dynamic range (HDR) features mean it will be
useful in high-resolution imaging in the fields of aerial mapping, city
planning, disaster monitoring and intelligent transportation systems,
the statement said.
Intelligent transportation system
is aimed to provide innovative services relating to different modes of
transport and traffic management, enabling various users to be better
informed and make safer, more coordinated, and ‘smarter’ use of
transport networks.
The camera is equipped with
advanced optical systems, camera control systems and high-capacity data
recording systems, and it has proven successful in a recent trial use as
a part of a national aerial remote-sensing system, it said.
The
institute also developed an 81 megapixel camera during the 10th Five
Year Plan period (2001—2005), and the latest achievement took the
researchers two years to develop.
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