Elphel
Elphel, Inc. designs and manufactures open hardware[1] and free software[2] cameras primarily for scientific applications, though these products can easily be customised for many different uses. Elphel Inc. was founded in 2001 by Russian physicist Andrey Filippov who emigrated to the United States of America in 1995.[3]
The current model is named "Elphel 353".
On the 6th December, 2010[4] Elphel launched their first panoramic camera solution (that is publicly available) called "Elphel Eyesis". Eyesis can be seen as the successor (designed for low parallax[5]) of the camera rig Elphel Inc. developed for Google Street View[6]
Applications
Elphel cameras are being used to capture images for Google Street View and the Google Books project[7] and are used in a Global Hawk UAV operated by NASA.[8] The Moss Landing Marine Laboratories use Elphel cameras in their project called Submersible Capable of Under Ice Navigation and Imaging (SCINI) – a NSF-funded research project for robotic under the sea ice for surveying and exploration in Antarctica.[9] The Franken camera F2 developed by Stanford University uses the Elphel 10383 sensor front-end.[10] The camera was used in the Apertus Project by a group of enthusiasts and moviemakers worldwide who work to achieve a digital cinema solution.
References
- ^ Open source hardware 2009 - The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009, Make:, 2009, retrieved November 23, 2010
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ Elphel camera: free software and open hardware, Free Software Foundation, 2009, retrieved March 31, 2013
- ^ Andrey N. Filippov, Elphel Inc., retrieved August 28, 2011
- ^ Announcement, Elphel Website, retrieved January 1, 2011
- ^ Elphel Eyesis Development Blog Post: Elphel Eyesis camera optics and lens focus adjustment, 2010, retrieved January 1, 2011
- ^ Elphel Eyesis Product Page, 2011, retrieved January 1, 2011
- ^ "Weekly Google Code Roundup", Google Code Blog, Google, 2007 August 10th, retrieved November 22, 2010
{{citation}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Janz, Scott J (April 6th, 2010). "Elphel camera on the Global Hawk". Elphel Technical Support (Mailing list). Retrieved November 22, 2010.
{{cite mailing list}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Unknown parameter|mailinglist=ignored (|mailing-list=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ "Engineering", Ice Aged Project, Cal state, 2010, retrieved November 23, 2010
- ^ Frequently asked questions about the Frankencamera, 2009, retrieved March 24, 2011