Here comes the sun
3 August 2020
Keely Portway looks at the latest vision technology used to inspect solar cells
Farmers are starting to reap the rewards of robotics and machine vision, as Keely Portway finds out
Drone
Flir to provide thermal equipment and training to DroneBase
11 April 2019
Flir Systems has made a strategic investment in drone operations company DroneBase, becoming an exclusive supplier of thermal imaging equipment and training
Flir buys robotics firms Endeavor for $385m and Aeryon Labs for $200m
14 February 2019
Endeavor Robotic Holdings builds unmanned ground vehicles, while Aeryon Labs develops aerial systems
SLAM algorithm developer raises $5m
15 October 2018
SLAMcore, a UK developer of Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms for robots and drones, has raised $5m in funding in order to help it deliver its technology market
Powering surveillance
20 April 2018
Matthew Dale explores new algorithms, processing boards and interfaces for viewing images, all for improving airborne surveillance
Flir Systems invests in DroneSense
19 April 2018
Flir Systems has completed a strategic investment in DroneSense
Researchers use eye-inspired camera to guide drones
1 November 2017
Researchers at the University of Zurich and the Swiss research consortium NCCR Robotics are using eye-inspired cameras to guide drones in low-light conditions
Staying on the rails
3 March 2017
Matthew Dale finds that optical inspection techniques are improving upkeep and the running of rail networks
Sights on solar
2 August 2016
Matthew Dale looks at how thermal imaging is improving solar plant inspection
Navigating image data for GIS
2 August 2016
Beth Harlen looks at how the accessibility of imaging technology has impacted the evolution of geographic information systems
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Outfield analyses aerial images of orchards using machine learning to predict crop yield
Open source software has advanced to a point where it’s now a credible option for industrial imaging, Matthew Dale finds
Active Silicon’s 4xCXP-12 FireBird Coaxpress frame grabber (PCIe Gen3 x8)
Chris Beynon, Active Silicon’s CTO and technical chair of the Coaxpress committee, updates on the Coaxpress standard
Neil Trevett and Chris Yates
The Khronos Group and the EMVA are to explore software standards for embedded vision. Khronos’ Neil Trevett and EMVA’s Chris Yates explain the work
Greg Blackman reports from the Embedded World show, where industry experts gave insights into vision processing at the edge
The first colour image, captured by a CMV20000 sensor, to be sent back by the hazard cameras on the Perseverance rover after its landing on Mars on 18 February. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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
