INTEGRATED PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS MOUNTED ON AIRCRAFT

摘要

An apparatus for continuously photographing the ground from an aircraft and recording image data as direct digital data on the real time basis. A line sensor directed in a vertical direction is disposed at an intermediate part between two line sensors directed slantingly forward and slanting backward, and these three parallel line sensors constitute a three-line-sensor camera. This camera is mounted on the aircraft. A gyro is assembled integrally with this three-line-sensor camera, and the ground images are recorded and reproduced according to posture data of the camera outputted from the gyro, the position data of the aircraft obtained from a GPS and digital image data of the three-line-sensor camera. Since the gyro is integrally assembled with the camera, the optical axis of the camera can be always directed in the vertical direction.