A gigapixel image is a digital image bitmap composed of one billion (109) pixels (picture elements), more than 150 times the information captured by a mid-range (6 megapixel) digital camera. A digital image is a representation of a two-dimensional Image using ones and zeros (binary In Computer graphics, a bitmap or pixmap is a type of memory organization or Image file format used to store Digital images The For other meanings see Giga (disambiguation Giga- (symbol G is a prefix in the SI system of units denoting 109 In Digital imaging, a pixel ( pict ure el ement is the smallest piece of information in an image In Digital imaging, a pixel ( pict ure el ement is the smallest piece of information in an image Many compact digital still cameras can record Sound and moving Video as well as still Photograph. Current technology for creating such very high-resolution images involves making mosaics of a large number of high-resolution digital photographs, or uses a film negative as large as 9"×12" (23 cm×30 cm), which is then scanned with a high-end film scanner. Image resolution describes the detail an Image holds The term applies equally to Digital images film images and other types of images Art History Mosaics of the 4th century BC are found in the Macedonian palace-city of Aegae, and they enriched the floors of Hellenistic In photography a negative may refer to three different things although they are all related A film scanner is a device made for Scanning Photographic film directly into a computer without the use of any intermediate printmaking Recent developments have demonstrated the practicality of developing scanning cameras capable of creating a gigapixel image in a single sweep of a scene.
Gigapixel images are of particular interest to the following: