A novel airborne digital camera system

For the large need of the high resolving power spatial data, a multi-mode airborne digital camera system (MADC) is researched and integrated which has the characters of wide field, multi-spectrum and stereo imaging. This paper introduces the constitution and the technical specifications. MADC can be combined with Position and Orientation System (POS) to get the orientation data of every image, thus, the geometric correction of the image can be done in case of that there are little or no ground control points (GCP), which saves the heavily late works. Many aerial experiments have been executed, and a mass of high quality images were captured. At last, the perspective of MADC's applications in the remote sensing fields is analyzed.