Images of Inaugural Parade

Point Grey Research today announced that its Ladybug3 spherical digital camera system was used to capture images of the 56th Inaugural Parade on January 20, 2009. NASA participated in the historic parade with its Lunar Electric Rover, which was equipped with a Ladybug3 to capture 360-degree digital video footage of the parade and Presidential Review Stand. The camera was mounted at the top of a mast on the rover and connected by a 10 m IEEE 1394b (FireWire) cable to a Dell Precision M90 Intel Core2 Duo laptop, which was equipped with a FireWire ExpressCard. Using the Ladybug SDK, NASA was able to control the camera, acquire full 12 MP images (2 MP from each of the six sensors) at 15 FPS for approximately ten minutes, store the footage to a video stream file, then post-process the data into panoramic AVI’s and still images.