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Imaging Technologies
Imaging plays an important role in many areas, whether you are on or off the planet. The International
Space Station (ISS) provides a platform to test myriad imaging technologies. One such technology is
three-dimensional (3-D) imaging that can be used in biomedical, geoscience, surveillance and many
other areas.
Space in 3-D
Humans have two eyes to perceive depth and see the 3-D films enhance the illusion of
world in three dimensions. Back in 2001, the European
Space Agency (ESA) started to develop a 3-D camera depth perception, thus bringing a
to navigate a rover on another planet. The power of feeling of realism to the audience.
stereoscopic vision not only opened a new window
to space, but also to a whole new range of stereo
cameras for business on Earth.
ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli films scientific experiments with the ERB-2 camera onboard the ISS.
Image credit: NASA
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