Summary

The MACS aerial camera is designed to withstand harsh environment like temperatures below -30°C. It has a weight of ~15kg and consists of a computing unit and a sensor head. The sensor head is equipped with matrix array CCD/CMOS/thermal-infrared cameras and is mounted in the fuselage providing free view down. In order to fulfill respective application requirements, sensors, their geometry and spectral ranges are modified. Thus, particular conditions are considered, e.g. flying over brightly reflecting snow, acquisition of highly structured terrain or low flight altitudes without gaps of recorded ground surface. Currently the maximum continuous image acquisition rate is 4 frames per second enabling more than 60% overlap from an altitude of 100 m.


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Contacts

Name Institution Role
Martin Gehrmann Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Engineer In Charge
Daniel Steinhage Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Editor
Jörg Brauchle Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR) Data Scientist

Components and Specifications

Aquisition of the video data require connection of the sensor head to a main unit. The main unit can be connected via Ethernet to an operator PC.

No subdevices available.


Specifications of MACS video system (without mounting)

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Data logging, storage and archiving
Logged parameter
No parameters available.
Rawdata storage on board
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Data archiving on land
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Documentation
Also see https://sensor.awi.de/ for calibration certificates of the sensors.