CALIBRATING THE NEW ULTRACAM OSPREY OBLIQUE AERIAL SENSOR

Calibrating and Testing New Ultracam Sensors

This contribution reports on the latest design of new UltraCam sensors. We present results from calibration and verification flights of the UltraCam Condor, which is based on a specific design and offers highest productivity from its 38000 pixel cross track image format. UltraCam Condor is based on the successful project experience with its predecessor, the UltraCam G.

UltraCam Photogrammetric Digital Aerial Cameras

The Ultracam Large Format Aerial Digital Camera System

The race is on to introduce an aerial digital camera system to outperform the current aerial film cameras in quality, accuracy and economics. We introduce the UltraCam-D large format digital aerial camera. It achieves superiority over conventional aerial film imaging. The system produces aerial "photography" as if a film camera had taken film images that then were scanned. As a result, images t...

Oblique Aerial Photographs - an “old-new” Data Source

New imaging platforms, progress in digital cameras, the use of GNSS/IMU technology either in direct sensor orientation or in integrated sensor orientation, new thinking with regard to control information in georeferencing, and co-operation between two disciplines – photogrammetry and computer vision – have brought the possibility of using oblique aerial photographs as a data source into the lim...

Oblique Image Collection -- Challenges and Solutions

For over a decade now oblique images are collected from airborne platforms on a regular basis. Several camera products have been presented from distinct camera vendors and their image products are well known. The UltraCam Osprey is the new oblique sensor by Microsoft / UltraCam Business Unit and was introduced into the market at the ASPRS 2013. This camera combines a metric nadir subsystem crea...