Aerodata International Surveys will begin capturing the city of Sydney and suburbs at 10 cm resolution with its VisionMap A3 Super Large Format digital aerial survey camera at the end of January.
In a first for Australia, the project will provide detailed imagery both vertically and from a perspective view, thanks to the unique sweeping technology provided by the camera.
Once the imagery is processed and orthorectified, it will be possible to identify objects as small as a cigarette pack with a ground positional accuracy of +/- 20 cm.
The imagery will be captured from 11,000 feet (3,400 m), an altitude that reduces the perspective of tall buildings and structures and provides the advantage of not disturbing the dense air traffic over Sydney Airport while the survey flight is conducted.
Aerodata's representative in Australia Luc Van Hoorick said that the camera is ideal for the Australian market.
“Not only is it more environmental friendly by cutting carbon dioxide emission of survey flights by nearly two times because of less flight time compared with other conventional digital cameras, its productivity and resolution performance from high altitude means large areas can be captured very rapidly,” he said.
Aerodata hopes government agencies as well as industries in the private sector that use aerial imagery will be interested in the solution.
The firm operates eight aircraft worldwide and has 2 VisionMap aerial survey cameras.
It has recently captured the whole city of London (1,600 sq km) at 10 cm resolution in one day and the whole country of the Netherlands (50,000 sq km) at 20 cm in less than a week.
