Specialised Imaging has chosen international conferences to showcase its latest advances in ultra high-speed framing and ballistic range camera technologies
Specialised Imaging has chosen the forthcoming International Conference on High Speed Photography and Photonics (Xi'an, China), the HyperVelocity Impact Symposium (Venice, Italy) and the Personal Armour Systems Symposium (Leeds, UK) in September 2006 to showcase its latest advances in ultra high-speed framing and ballistic range camera technologies.
Drawing upon many years experience of ultra-high speed camera technology and knowledge of modern generation weaponry, Specialised Imaging has during the last 12 months added several new products to its family of high performance cameras.
ICHSPP 2006 will mark the Asian debut of both the Sim multi-channel framing camera and the new high performance Trajectory Tracker system.
Visitors to all three meetings will be able to review the Sir2 - a unique high performance, high-speed camera that offers true double imaging capability.
The rigid all-metal IP54 rated construction of the compact Sir2 makes it ideally suited to the typically harsh environment of the military test range.
The imaging engine of the Sir2 has been designed to offer the ultimate in resolution, timing accuracy, and measurement capabilities.
The 11-million pixel images provide more detail than any other high-speed camera in its class.
The unique ability to acquire two full resolution images provides valuable information on displacement and velocity for ballistics, detonics and impact studies.
For ballisticians and engineers looking for a robust, reliable and highly affordable camera the SIR ballistic range camera will also be on display.
The Sim multi-channel framing camera from Specialised Imaging takes the capture of images for accurate, high-speed spatial analysis of transient events to a new level.
Unlike traditional high-speed framing cameras the unique optical design of the Sim provides the choice of 4, 6, 8 or even 16 separate optical channels without comprising performance or image quality.
Effects such as parallax and shading, inherent in other designs, are eliminated and the high spatial resolution (50lp/mm) is the same frame to frame and in both axes.
Individual ultra-high resolution intensified CCD detectors, controlled by state-of-the-art electronics, offer almost infinite control over gain and exposure allowing experimenters researchers total freedom to capture images of even the most difficult transient phenomena.
The ability to mount individual filters in each optical channel provides the Sim with uniquely flexible spectral selectivity.
Technical experts will be available at each meeting to discuss the Trajectory Tracker, a state-of-the-art system designed to provide consistent and accurate tracking of projectiles in flight using a computer controlled rotating mirror positioned in front of a high-speed digital video camera.
The new system allows observations to be made of the behaviour of projectiles in flight for greater than 100 metres with a tracking accuracy of better than 0.5deg over its full scan.
The Trajectory Tracker mirror is programmed to rotate at the correct speed such that the camera will 'track' the projectile as it passes the system position.
Typically, the system will track the trajectory for 100 metres or more as the mirror scans a 90deg arc providing high quality images of the projectile in flight.
This slow motion record of a projectile in flight allows accurate diagnosis of events such as fin deployment, motor burn time, pitch, yaw and spin rate.
