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.
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 centigrade 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.
A megapixel is one million
pixels, and is a term used not only for the number of pixels in an
image, but also to express the number of image sensor elements of
digital cameras or the number of display elements of digital displays.
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