Microsoft’s Vexcel Imaging GmbH new Sales

25 March 2009, 4:53pm

Baltimore, MD — At the 2009 annual conference for the American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ASPRS) in Baltimore this week, Vexcel Imaging, GmbH—Microsoft’s Photogrammetry division—announced a recent flurry of sales of its UltraCam large and medium format digital aerial mapping cameras. The sales bring the number of UltraCam large format systems sold worldwide—which includes the UltraCamD, UltraCamX and UltraCamXp models—to 113, making the UltraCam arguably the leading selling large format aerial camera on the market. Meanwhile, two orders were placed for the UltraCamL medium format system just eight months after it was announced from the XXIst International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Congress in Beijing and two months before it is scheduled for actual release.

The sales break down as follows:

UltraCamXp—Geofly (Germany); Techmex (Poland); Shanghai Tephys Optoelectronics Co., Ltd (China); Shinhan (Korea); Eurosense (Europe); Aerodata (Belgium).

Ul traCamX—the State Committee Republic of Uzbekistan.

UltraCamL—Aerial Surveys Limited (New Zealand), SEPRET (Monocco)

“We are pleased to be able to report continued success of our UltraCam aerial sensor systems,” said Alexander Wiechert, Business Director of Microsoft and Managing Director for Vexcel Imaging GmbH. “This strong sales activity, despite the weakened global economy, speaks volumes to the exceptional value of our offerings and underscores market recognition of our products as sound investments.”

The first model of the UltraCam family of digital aerial mapping cameras, the UltraCamD, was introduced in 2004 delivering the largest image footprint of the digital aerial sensors on the market. Since that time, Vexcel Imaging has released the UltraCamX followed by the UltraCamXp featuring even larger image formats (the UCXp boasts a 196 megapixel image footprint) reducing the amount of flight lines necessary for mapping projects and an enhanced storage system with removable storage units for longer flight missions and minimal ground time.

The UtraCamL digital medium format photogrammetric camera delivers many of the same technical capabilities of the UltraCam large format systems but in a smaller and lighter package design for use in smaller aircraft. It offers a 64 megapixel image format, a 1:2.2 pan sharpen ratio and collects RGB and NIR in parallel, all with forward motion compensation by TDI, allowing it to deliver brilliant true-color and color-infrared (CIR) image quality with unmatched radiometric range, and making it ideal for smaller large-scale and photogrammetric projects, high-resolution (true) orthophoto production, multi-ray photogrammetry, corridor mapping, and lidar integration. Following very closely on the heels of the recently released UltraCamL, the just announced UltraCamLp bests its predecessor by providing data collection at 92 megapixels (11,704 x 7,920 pixels pan) making it the largest-footprint medium format camera system on the market. Both models take advantage of the computing and storage subsystems introduced with the UltraCamXp. The UltraCamLp will be available for flying season 2010 with deliveries beginning in November 2009. Existing UltraCamL customers will be upgraded to the UltraCamLp free of charge.

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