AFS 150
Aerial Film Scanner 150
The solution for your historical aerial photography
Fast and precise scanning solution for film and photos
As single sheets or automated from roll film
AFS 150 - the components
With the AFS150 you can process all aerial image types - both automatic film rolls and single images
Historical aerial images
Since the beginning of the 20th century, aerial photographs were taken from airplanes. This type of analog imagery did not end until the first decade of the 21st century. During these 100 years or so, millions of aerial images were taken.
Currently, most of the images are still on film or photos in archives - all over the world. Mostly they are stored on roll film and sometimes they are in the archives as individual images. With the outdated, slow film scanner technology, it is hardly possible to digitize these valuable contemporary documents within a few years.
What's needed is a much faster technology – what's needed is the AFS 150!
The heart of the AFS150
An acromatic frame camera from Phaseone is installed in the scanner. The iXM-MV150F has 150 Mpixel.
The AFS150 does not require image stitching.
Geometrical calibration helps to get high accuracies characteristics for scan area. The achromatic Phaseone camera has a recognized excellent image quality with 14 Bit and a dynamic range of 84 dB.
Colored aerial images
Colored aerial images are generated by the AFS150 as combination of 3 individual images. So the red and green and blue image has the full resolution of 150 MPixel.
The final image is a Tiff file as RGB with full color and up to 42 bit color depth.
The AFS150 works without pansharpening!
Simple software interface
Scanning is very simple. Nevertheless, there are all the options that the customer needs.
Solid metal construction - the basis for precision
Key features
- Fully automatic film roll scanning
- Scanning of single frames
- Native: 23 Micrometer
- Optical: 20 Micrometer
- Optional: Scanning of photos
- One calibrated camera system
- 14 bits per channel
- Full resolution for red, green and blue
- Geometrically calibrated
- Radiometrically calibrated
- No Bayer array
- No pansharpening
- No image stitching
- Simple operation
- Moduled system
- Camera flexible system
- Automatic cropping of the images
- Automatic dodging of images
- Automatic color balancing of the images
Easy operation on the scanner
Technical specification
| Resolution |
Native: 23 Micrometer Optional: 20 Micrometer |
| Media | Roll Film (manual/automatic); Individual Frame Positive or Negative; B/W or Color transparency |
| Geometric Accuracy | ±3(2)μms RMSE for X-Axis and for Y-Axis |
| Radiometry | 14(12,10,8) bits per sample |
| Optical Density | 0.001 to 3.7D |
| Dynamic Range | 3.1D |
| Illumination | Computer controlled LED matrix 64x64 |
| Sensor | 150 Mega pixels (3.76 μm) |
| Lenses | Linos Lenses 60mm |
| Scanning Range | Roll Unit 256x242mm; Cut Sheet 256x242 |
| Image Format | Tiled TIFF, Strip TIFF, TIFF 6.0 JPEG, JPEG2000 |
| Bandwidth per channel | 8/10/12/14 bits |
| Operating System | Windows 10™ (64 bit) |
| Dimensions | 0.86 x 0.7 x 1.16 m |
| Weight | 102 Kg. |
Time
| Image Size: 233 x 233 mm | Black & White | True Color |
| Scanning Time* | 3 sec | 9 sec |
| Post Processing time* | 25 sec | 40 sec |
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