The sensor stories behind the Mars Perseverance images
Greg Blackman speaks to Guy Meynants, formerly of Cmosis, and Paul Jerram, of Teledyne e2v, about the history of the image sensors onboard the Mars rover
Greg Blackman speaks to Guy Meynants, formerly of Cmosis, and Paul Jerram, of Teledyne e2v, about the history of the image sensors onboard the Mars rover
Semi Conductor Devices has delivered a SWIR sensor to the Institute for Solar Physics at Stockholm University in Sweden
This white paper describes the benefit of performing free space optical communication in the SWIR wavelength range, and how the C-Red 3 SWIR camera is well suited for acting as the detector in an adaptive optics loop for wavefront sensing
High-speed Mikrotron cameras reduce the effects of atmospheric distortion
A thermal imaging technique taken from astrophysical software is being used by ecologists at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) to improve the accuracy of monitoring endangered animal species
More than 92,000 images of the moon’s surface taken in the 1960s by Nasa’s Surveyor missions have been digitised in a project conducted by the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Two Active Silicon frame grabbers are being launched on a scientific balloon high into the Earth’s atmosphere as part of a research project to explore Earth-like exoplanets
Teledyne e2v has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to supply CCD image sensors for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Tom Eddershaw on the imaging equipment observing our skies, both from Earth and space, including the imagers onboard the Rosetta Philae lander
From the ESA Gaia mission to survey one billion stars, which is due to launch this month, to photographing the sun, Greg Blackman looks at some of the imaging technology used in astronomy
A roundup of some of the latest embedded vision technology
Tim Hayes provides a window into how to find defects in glass
Mathias Bochow, GFZ Helmholtz Centre, Potsdam, is working on the Trace project to track marine plastic. Credit: Frank Schweikert, Aldebaran Marine Research & Broadcast (www.aldebaran.org/en/)
Abigail Williams speaks to scientists tracking marine plastic using satellite spectral imagery
Tim Reynolds finds out how vision and AI algorithms are making cities safer
Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision, on how the mechanical engineering sector could be affected by the war in Ukraine
Greg Blackman examines the importance of Tower foundries to machine vision sensor firms, following Intel’s acquisition