Friday, June 3rd, 2016
Redmond, Wash.—Planetary Resources, Inc., the asteroid mining company, announced today that it has secured US$21.1 million in Series A funding. The capital will be used to deploy and operate Ceres, an advanced Earth observation business that features the first commercial infrared and hyperspectral sensor platform to better understand and manage humanity’s natural resources. The funding
Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
A breakthrough by an Australian collaboration of researchers could make infra-red technology easy-to-use and cheap, potentially saving millions of dollars in defence and other areas using sensing devices, and boosting applications of technology to a host of new areas, such as agriculture. Infra-red devices are used for improved vision through fog and for night vision
Thursday, April 21st, 2016
WILSONVILLE, Ore., April 18, 2016 – FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) today announced Boson™, its smallest, lightest, and least power-consuming, high-performance uncooled thermal camera for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Sized between FLIR’s Tau® and Lepton® camera cores, Boson is the first thermal camera core to incorporate a sophisticated, low-power multi-core vision processor running FLIR XIR™
Tuesday, April 19th, 2016
Palaiseau, near Paris, France, April 19, 2016—Sofradir, the global leader in advanced infrared (IR) detectors for military, space, scientific and commercial applications, today announces that its market competitive Daphnis HD will enter production. The 10-micron pixel pitch high-definition IR detector claims superior performance against recently launched competitive 10µm products. The decision to launch production follows
Monday, July 16th, 2012
Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce that aerial surveying company Bluesky International has purchased a state-of-the- art airborne mapping system, which includes an ALTM lidar sensor as well as a fully integrated long-wave infrared thermal sensor and high-resolution ortho camera.
