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Microsoft will produce a 196-megapixel UltraCamXp camera. UltraCamXp can capture images up to 2.5 Gb.

Microsoft will use the new camera to capture terrain photos used in its Live Maps map service. With such a large resolution, UltraCamXp is the largest camera 'format' today for use in aerial photography.

Online map services such as Google Maps or Microsoft Live Maps rely on a type of photography called ortho photography. In this shooting technique, photographs taken with expensive cameras placed on an aircraft will be analyzed to produce terrain data. After being sent to the center, the photos are "stitched together" to form geographic data. From here, the mapping service running on your web browser will bring up all the image data and you can freely adjust the resolution and magnification as you like to see them.

Photos taken from the camera, 196 Megapixel will be converted to data for Microsoft programs.

By acquiring the Austrian map company Vexcel, Microsoft has been able to design and build high-resolution cameras suitable for aerial photography to create bird's eye views. flying birds and looking down) in Live Maps.

While the 64-megapixel UltraCamL is not enough to help Microsoft map the earth, the new UltraCamL 92 MP camera is capable of shooting at 11704 x 7,920 pixels. Microsoft plans to bring UltraCamL into service in 2010.

The resolution of UltraCamXp is even higher than that of UltraCamLp, 196 MP equivalent and one pixel equivalent to 6 micrometres (μm). The camera can capture three-dimensional photographs when the plane flies at a speed of 110 nautical miles per second.

UltraCamXp camera has a resolution of 196 Megapixel.

UltraCamXp also supports maximum data transfer rates up to 2.5 Gbps. The camera's 14-CPU calculator, which processes photos in real-time on board, delivers a high-quality image.

Microsoft launched the UltraCam series in 2004. They now plan to bring UltraCamXp to agencies, organizations and corporations specializing in orthography.