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About Gigapan

GigaPan is the newest development of the Global Connection Project, which aims to help us meet our neighbors across the globe, and learn about our planet itself. GigaPan will help bring distant communities and peoples together through images that have so much detail that they are, themselves, the objects of exploration, discovery and wonder. We believe that enabling people to explore, experience, and share each other’s worlds can be a transforming experience. Our mission is to make all aspects of the GigaPan experience accessible and affordable to the broadest possible community.

GigaPan consists of three technological developments: a robotic camera mount for capturing very high-resolution (gigapixel and up) panoramic images using a standard digital camera; custom software for constructing very high-resolution gigapixel panoramas; and, a new type of website for exploring, sharing and commenting on gigapixel panoramas and the detail our users will discover within them. The GigaPan website allows hosting and sharing all kinds of panoramas, and so the robotic GigaPan mount is recommended but is certainly not required to be part of this community.

GigaPan has been sponsored by Google, CMU and the NASA/Ames Intelligent Robotics Group. GigaPan is part of the Global Connection Project at Carnegie Mellon University. The Fine Family Foundation has provided gift funding enabling the Gigapan system to be used by scientists internationally for exploration, discovery and documentation.

GigaPan is working with a company which will manufacture and sell the GigaPan camera mount–details coming very soon! To receive notification via email when the GigaPan device is commercially available, we encourage you to sign up using our registration form.