Fire Mapping

Using thermal and visible cameras, composite maps are updated in minutes. The Georeferenced maps pinpoint the fire edge, unlike context-less, narrow-view video, enabling firefighters to react as fast as the fire moves. Our mapping system improves firefighter safety and maximizes the benefit of the available resources. Learn More…

Aerial Mapping – Extreme Environment

Sensory Labs provides high resolution cameras for an extreme environmental application. The OEM wrote the custom recording and mapping software for this application. Sensory Labs provides the cameras, electronic lens control units and consultation.  The cameras are subjected to significant temperature ranges and high vibration while in use.  Dozens of units are deployed.

Wild Life Survey

We designed an airborne system with visible and thermal capabilities to record large animal population (deer and elk) during surveys to verify counts and species identification. The system is human controlled and the vision system is self-contained for use on any vehicle. The thermal images are used to identify populations hidden by the leaf canopy and to help separate animals in close proximity.  The high resolution visible images are essential for species and age identification.

High Altitude Mapping / Multispectral

Sensory Labs designed a high altitude mapping sub-system capable of capturing NADIR and off-angle looking cameras synchronously for generating detailed group maps. The eight-camera solution is sensitive in 16 spectral bands. Capture occurs during flight. GPS location is utilized to trigger the capture to generate overlapped images for accurate mapping. The image overlap distance is configurable.

Invasive Plant Detection

We built and fielded a dual-image multispectral, visible and NIR, capture and process system to detect weeds remotely.  On trigger, two images from a single camera are collected and processed to highlight the existence of skeleton weed. The camera contains two sensors that share their view through a single lens keeping the two images perfectly aligned and reducing the computational complexity. The algorithm was developed in-house by Sensory Labs.

American Sign Language Database

We built a four camera system to record native sign language speakers. The cameras were combined to generate 3D video information. The data was used to create a visual dictionary for American Sign Language (ASL). The dictionary provides a reverse look-up database for translating sign information.  The user signs into the computer’s camera. Software searches the extensive database. The most likely sign matches are presented. This method is useful for translating sign into text, as well as, helping people learn how to sign.  If you have a word to express, it’s generally easy to find the sign. But, have you ever seen a sign and wondered what it meant? Now you can look it up!

Fish Counting

Sensory Labs was the vision software sub-contractor for a fish counting effort related to fish migration being blocked by a dam. The system uses two techniques for counting fish; a line-scan camera, and a laser sensor for use underwater.  The fish are encouraged to swim into the elevator space. As they pass through a vertical light beam detection area, they are counted. Fish leaving the elevator are also detected and the count reduced. When the elevator space has sufficient fish, the chamber is closed and raised. The fish are poured onto the flume where they are de-watered. Fish pass the view of a second line-scan camera and are counted again as they enter the holding tank. Later, staff sorts the fish into a number of trucks. Some fish are taken back down the river, some are moved above the dam, and others are moved further up the river past additional barriers.

Image Collection

Collection systems record images from multiple cameras with precise triggering for 3D reconstruction, or capturing research experiments such as particle imaging velocimetry (PIV). Imaging up to thousands of frames per second, high speed cameras allow insight into highly dynamic biomedical and manufacturing processes.