The GSM 3000 is a gyrostabilized platform that will accommodate most contemporary aerial sensors, including film and digital cameras and scanners of various types. Stabilized mounts provide important advantages:

*Drastic reduction of the angular rates caused by turbulence. With film cameras equipped with forward image motion compensation, the gyrostabilized mount further reduces image motion and allows for longer exposure times and the use of slower, fine-grained films, resulting in highly enhanced resolution.

*Results from other sensors are also improved by elimination of momentary roll, pitch, and yaw angle errors associated with turbulence and, in addition, the effective passive isolation from high-frequency vibrations primarily caused by engines and propellers provided by a combination of springs and specially manufactured viscous dampers.

*Attitude sensors provide real-time readout of pitch, roll and yaw for determination of the sensor coordinates in respect to the aircraft's GPS antenna (lever arm correction).

When used with an inertial platform such as IGI's AEROcontrol system, the GSM-3000 can be controlled by the highly-accurate gyros of the inertial system, giving better stabilization and more accurate leveling.

See complete details at http://www.somag-ag.de/.

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