Applications

The bike and clothing used in the Tour de France by André Greipels has been designed using Particle Image Velocimetry - the same technique used in Formula 1

After a decade-long journey through the solar system, Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft has begun to transmit the first ever close-up images of Pluto

The team building the Bloodhound-SSC World Land Speed Record vehicle has installed the car's jet engine, the rocket plume from which will be recorded during testing using a high-speed camera

A team at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland has used hyperspectral imaging to confirm that a painting from 1891, 'A Haystack in the Evening Sun', was a genuine work by Claude Monet

A clinical research programme at the VU University Medical Centre of Amsterdam in The Netherlands is using thermal imaging as a diagnostic tool to assess burn wounds

A 4 million Euro Horizon 2020 project aiming to develop a robot for harvesting sweet peppers in greenhouses will begin on 12 February

To ensure traceability of the production process of its SL-Class vehicle, Mercedes-Benz now employs various code reading systems to assign each body part to a specific vehicle at its plant in Bremen, Germany

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken a second photograph of the 'Pillars of Creation' - an image of columns of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, some 7,000 light years from Earth

An MIT spinout, Essess, is helping combat energy waste from homes by providing cars with thermal-imaging rooftop rigs that create heat maps of buildings as they drive by

A software developer has designed a vision system for processing sterile surgical instruments in hospitals, simplifying the packaging process