Using innovative technologies in the capture, processing and deployment of imagery - Digital Mapping Camera unites Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Tom Tadrowski Executive Director Alrabiah AEROmetrex, UAE Email: tom@aerometrex.com.au Advances in the available technology for aerial image capture present great opportunities. It also presents a number of challenges in efficiently using and distributing the acquired image data. New Digital Mapping Cameras (DMC) are capable of capturing up to 1,800 frames in a single sortie. The DMC’s can simultaneously capture 4 bands and as 16-bit data, enabling clients to have unsurpassed colour and infrared imagery over their target area. The size of the data from just a single flight can amount to over 5 TB of high quality radiometric, and georeferenced data. This imagery data is stored on disks on the aircraft, and therefore available within very short timeframes. Managing, distributing and using this effectively are a huge challenge! A workflow process and methodologies needs to be developed to ensure that the timely delivery of current image data can be delivered to those that need it to make decisions. This paper will discuss: - Key advances and benefits of using new DMC’s for data capture - Workflow processes and technological research aimed at shortening the time newly captured data can be used. - Effectively deploying and accessing large datasets - Uniting Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing