Operational Status: requestable, ready for deployment
General Description:
- Small industrial machine vision cameras with IEEE 1394 (Firewire) interface. Forward camera is a Point Grey "FLEA" with color 1024x768 resolution. Lens is a wide-angle Navitar 412, 4 mm focal length with a field of view of 62° x 48° (horizontal x vertical). Raw pixel data is sent on the firewire bus to a specialized DSM or mission controller computer for conversion to an RGB image. It is then JPEG compressed and saved. The image acquisition time becomes the filename. The images are then annotated with flight data and compiled into a MPEG-4 movie.
- The forward camera is a standard instrument. Upon request, left- and right-facing cameras can be deployed on the GV or C-130. These look out a cabin window. A downward-looking camera is available for the C-130. The downward camera can be color or monochrome, with the monochrome being a larger-pixel, higher resolution camera. A long telephoto lens is available for the downward-looking camera.
