Camera
Wild Leica RC30 with Forward Motion Compensation (FMC).

Digital Cameras
2 Imacon Ixpress 132C with Rodenstock Apo-Sironar Digital HR lenses.

Lenses

• Apo-Sironar Digital HR Lenses (60mm) for the Digital Camera
• RC30 F/4 max. aperture 153 mm (6") focal length with Leica calibration.
• 303 mm (12") focal length with NRC Category A calibration.

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Camera Levelling
Cessna 206 - Manual controls for Pitch, Roll, and Azimuth.

Navigation and Photo Control
Proprietary software operating on a PC attends to automatic camera levelling, eliminating drift, and generating velocity/height signals to operate the FMC. This software in combination with 2 Novatel GPS receivers provides for precise, reliable flight-line navigation and the ability to capture camera station positions with accuracy as high as 10cm. The uncorrected position and time is logged at the time of exposure. A video system is used as a backup for navigation and camera station control.

GPS for Perspective Centre Recovery
Using two Novatel receivers and the British Columbia network of Active Control Stations we are able to recover the coordinates of each perspective centre with precisions as high as 15cm RMS. The perspective center is the position from which all rays emanate - ie. the point in the air where the picture is taken. It is not simply the point on the ground which is at the centre of the photograph. Currently not available for the Digital Cameras.

Film Processing
Black and white films are processed in-house using a Kodak 11CM Versamet. The processor is reserved exclusively for film products to eliminate contamination from paper products.
Colour films are processed at either HAS Images in Dayton, Ohio or Northwest Geomatics Ltd. in Edmonton, Alberta.

Annotation
Film is annotated with a CAD driven plotter. This permits complex, low-cost customized annotation for each client.

Delivery Formats
Processed positive and negative roll films, contact paper prints and film diapositives, enlargements up to 12x.

Digital images are stored on CD's, DVD's or Removable Hard Drives depending on the size of the job.