Recently added articles from Advanced Imaging:
It's rough out there: no, not the economy. In this issue we take a look at the problems of imaging in harsh environments.(PERSPECTIVE)
Jul 01, 2009; ... The sergeant on the old TV cop show, ill Street Blues used to send his troops into the streets following roll call with a simple admonishment: "Let's be careful out there." While the harsh environments of imaging, of course, don't carry the life-threatening risks of a police ...
Standing up to harsh environments: electronic imaging in the real world must survive heat, contamination, shock and radiation.(EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS)
Jul 01, 2009; ... * Cameras * Harsh environment * Machine vision * Space exploration [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Forty years ago, when Bell Labs researchers developed the first CCD camera, the technology was exclusively for the clean, climate-controlled ...
High-speed imaging in harrowing environments: TV show pushes limits of high-speed camera technology to capture images of 'unseen world'.(HIGH-SPEED IMAGING)
Jul 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] When Creative Differences, the production company responsible for Discovery Channel's hit show Time Warp, first approached me with the concept of a television show that would "reveal an unseen world using high-speed camera technology," I was both thrilled and ...
Exploring Mars in Utah: student competition combines real-time video streaming and remote robotic exploration.(SPACE EXPLORATION)
Jul 01, 2009; ... The topography of Mars has everything from lava-flattened plains to cratered highlands. It has volcanoes and mountains but no oceans. Its temperature ranges from -140 [degrees]C (-220 [degrees]F) during the polar winters to highs of up to 20[degrees] C (68[degrees] F) in summers. In short, ...
Extreme Design for extreme imaging: rugged components, super-charged processing and ultra-compact form factors are meeting the challenges of imaging in harsh environments.(EXTREME IMAGING)
Jul 01, 2009; ... Imaging systems today are found in some pretty amazing places--underwater, in the air, in the middle of the desert, hospital basements or surgery suites, or even inside the human body. Speed of data capture, and the speed and accuracy of decision-making enabled by that data, are perhaps ...