AFC-900 large-format aerial frame camera: design principles and photogrammetric processing

Since aerial photography entered the stage of digital photogrammetry, digital aerial photography has replaced traditional optical film aerial photography to obtain digital images, becoming a major development trend in the field of photogrammetry. Compared with single-format CCD cameras, large-format aerial survey cameras have the characteristics of wide field of view and high resolution, which can effectively reduce the flight time of aerial photography and improve production efficiency. The AFC-900 large-format aerial survey camera designed by the Beijing Institute of Space Mechatronics has the largest format among cameras in the world with higher resolution and operating efficiency. This article mainly introduces the camera design, main technical parameters, photogrammetric processing technology and advantages of AFC-900, and looks forward to its application prospects.