Advanced Digital High-Speed Camera for Airborne Applications

Vision Research, a leading manufacturer of high-speed digital imaging systems, today extended its Phantom® Miro(TM) family with the launch of Miro Airborne, a digital high-speed camera engineered to specifically withstand the extreme environments associated with airborne applications. Compact, lightweight, and rugged, Miro Airborne is ideal for a number of airborne applications including stores separation from manned aircraft or UAVs, miss distance calculations for missile deployment, or landing gear analysis.

At the heart of Miro Airborne is a specially designed CMOS sensor featuring a maximum resolution of 800x600. At its maximum resolution, Miro Airborne can record 1,250 frames per second (fps), and up to 111,000 fps at reduced resolutions. With shutter speeds as low as two microseconds, users can freeze objects in motion, eliminate blur, and bring out details necessary for successful motion analysis. Miro Airborne also features mounting plates with standard 1/4-20 holes on two sides of the camera, and to further help eliminate blur, it incorporates lens mounting holes for additional lens support and flange mount Hi-G and vibration resistant lenses.

Vision Research also incorporated two forms of memory with the Miro Airborne. The camera includes 2GB of internal volatile memory for the fast writing of data for high-speed image capture and also features a CompactFlash™ card slot. After the camera is triggered, Miro Airborne immediately writes to its internal memory and then automatically transfers the images to the removable, non-volatile CompactFlash card for safe storage of images and movie files.

Additionally, all Miro Airborne digital high-speed cameras will ship with a trial version of Image Systems' TEMA Starter for Phantom motion analysis software. One of the most trusted providers of motion analysis solutions, Image Systems' TEMA software will provide users with the ability to conduct in-depth, quantitative analysis of their high-speed images, allowing them to automatically track three targets and calculate for velocity and acceleration.

Miro Airborne has an anodized flight test orange finish and is available now in the United States starting at an MSRP $45,000. Additional information can be found by visiting http://www.visionresearch.com/index.cfm?sector=htm/files&page=miro_airborne.