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Gigapan
GigaPan is a collaborative project between Carnegie Mellon University and NASA Ames Intelligent Systems Division's Robotics Group with support from Google. Its goal is to facilitate the taking of large (gigapixel) composite pictures, presenting the data as a single image and providing efficient web storage, browsing and zooming of such images.
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GigaPan technology can capture a crowd in detail
The next time you head out to the concert event of the year - or even a sporting event - make sure you're well-coiffed and ready for your close-up.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Digital panoramas of rangelands could be rich source of research data
A scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is exploring how rangeland ecologists could use high-resolution digital panoramas to track landscape changes.
Sep 20, 2011 |
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GigaBlitz will turn high-resolution images of nature into global inventory of organisms, habitats
Nature is just outside your door — in your backyard, a vacant lot next door or perhaps a stand of trees down the block. During the week of this year's summer solstice, June 18-24, people worldwide are being urged to ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 26, 2011 |
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Highest GigaPan Panoramas Taken On Earth's Surface
(PhysOrg.com) -- On May 20, 2009, former NASA astronaut and Ames employee Scott Parazynski became the first person to have been to space and to climb to the summit of Mount Everest. On his way to the summit ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 19, 2009 |
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How supermassive black holes came into existence shortly after the Big Bang
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology have discovered what caused the rapid growth of early supermassive black holes — a steady ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Scientists simulate Moon and Mars exploration in Mojave desert
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and a team of international researchers from Mars Institute and SETI Institute returned to the Mojave Desert this month to complete a series of field tests and simulations aimed at investigating ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 24, 2011 |
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GigaBlitz event seeks citizen scientists to capture images of nearby biodiversity
From a bike path in Montana to a backwater underneath a highway overpass in Austria, citizen scientists fanned out last June to capture high-resolution images for the first Nearby Nature GigaBlitz. Organizers are hoping for ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 10, 2011 |
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Researchers build time machine to visually explore space and time
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have leveraged the latest browser technology to create GigaPan Time Machine, a system that enables viewers to explore gigapixel-scale, high-resolution videos ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 21, 2011 |
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Robotic camera technology inspires virtual exploration by students around the world
In 2008, students at the private middle school Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School in Pittsburgh, Pa. exchanged high-resolution photographs of their city with shots taken by students from a school located in ...
Apr 12, 2011 |
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Mars Technology Helps Create Inauguration Mega-picture
When a new president is inaugurated, it's a big event, and it calls for a big picture. To be precise, 1,474 megapixels.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Feb 03, 2009 |
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New system makes any digital camera take multibillion-pixel shots
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center, have built a low-cost robotic device that enables any digital camera to produce breathtaking gigapixel (billions ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 26, 2007 |
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