Calgary, October 5, 2016 – The first formal airborne geomatics survey to quantify the extent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now underway, organized and conducted by the Dutch foundation Ocean Cleanup. ITRES and Teledyne Optech are working with Ocean Cleanup in providing a highly sensitive specialized shortwave infrared (SWIR) hyperspectral imaging and Lidar scanning sensor suite to augment a RGB camera and human spotters on the survey aircraft. This airborne survey is currently sensing and scanning thousands of square kilometers of this plastics-dominated patch of ocean.

 

Last year Ocean Cleanup produced a ship-based high resolution map from a survey that showed the surprising spatial extent of this huge mass of water-suspended plastics.

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Calgary, February 16, 2016 – As part of a Space Technologies Development Program (STDP) initiated by the Canadian Space Agency, ITRES was awarded a contract to develop an airborne prototype light-weight, high performance water color imaging spectrometer. Microsatellite-based, the hyperspectral WaterSat will be used to meet Canadian user needs for coastal and inland environmental and water resource management monitoring. Development work on this airborne prototype is now underway.

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Calgary, February 2, 2016 – ITRES is pleased to announce the sale of the first micro-CASI-1920 VNIR imager to the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). NRC’s flight research laboratory in Ottawa will use this new hyperspectral micro imager in support of their on-going multi-disciplinary development of UAV-based applied science applications.

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Calgary, January 8, 2016 – Happy New Year everyone! On December 1, ITRES moved into its new upgraded and more modern facilities. The relocation went very smoothly with minimal disruption to our new imaging sensor builds and on-going design and survey contract work. Multiple sensor deliveries to clients around the world were made in the month leading up to the move, so needless to say, we were kept on our toes!

In addition to offering more space, our new headquarters has an optimized floor plan for our core activities: optical, mechanical, and electronic design and manufacturing and our hyperspectral and thermal surveys (Operations) group.

Calgary, December 14, 2015

ITRES is pleased to present the very first raw imagery acquired by our new microCASI. This wide-swath, 288-band (programmable) hyperspectral VNIR micro system is under 2.5kg in weight and has been designed for use in both unmanned airborne vehicles (UAVs) as well as desktop and industrial imaging use.

Larger samples of the images seen below are found on the microCASI First Light Image page or by clicking on the image below.

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Calgary, October 6, 2015 – Since developing its new line of hyperspectral and broadband micro-imagers earlier this year, ITRES has rebranded them to more clearly associate their spectral coverage with their long-established, high-performance counterparts, the CASI, SASI, and TABI. The names of these new micro-imagers are:

• microCASI-1920 (hyperspectral pushbroom VNIR)
• microSASI-384 (hyperspectral pushbroom SWIR)
• microTABI-640 (broadband pushframe thermal MWIR)

ITRES has used its 36-year experience in developing its full suite of high-performance airborne imagers into bringing these three new UAV- and industrial-imaging sensors to market.

Each micro imager is under 2kg in weight. Like their full sized siblings, each accepts inputs attitude and position input (in this case from a MEMS inertial system) and the resulting georeferenced data are compatible with Lidar datasets. Ground-based applications for these imagers may use motorized scanning tripod platforms in addition to incorporating them in machine-vision applications.

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Calgary, October 1, 2015 – ITRES is excited to announce the coming move of our corporate headquarters to a new and larger space in Calgary! Our existing location has served us well, but our continued growth has made things a little cramped for our hyperspectral imager design, manufacturing, and global air survey activities.

Only our physical address is changing. We’re keeping our existing telephone number (+1-403-250-9944). Read More