Gigapan is a collaborative project of Google, Carnegie Mellon University and NASA Ames Intelligent Systems Division's Robotics Group. Google Inc is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online Carnegie Mellon University (also known as CMU) is a private Research University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United NASA Ames Research Center (ARC is a NASA facility located at Moffett Federal Airfield, which covers 43 acres at the borders of the cities of Mountain View NASA Ames Research Center (ARC is a NASA facility located at Moffett Federal Airfield, which covers 43 acres at the borders of the cities of Mountain View It is a robotic platform that attaches to a digital camera and some computer software. The robotic platform allows a user to take a photograph, then it will re-aim the camera with great precision, to take another photograph. After taking many photos, the software stitches all the pictures into a gigapixel image. A gigapixel image is a Digital image Bitmap composed of one billion (109 Pixels (picture elements more than 150 times the information
Public beta-testing of a consumer version of the platform and software has begun.
Illah Nourbakhsh, Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University spoke about Gigapan on BBC's "Digital Planet" radio show and podcast on September 11, 2006 [1].
External links
- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~globalconn/gigapan.html
- http://www.gigapan.org
- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-297027359091996047&q=%22public+domain%22+duration%3Along
- http://youtube.com/watch?v=sYhwVMB9QYw