Winners of Microsoft UltraCam Image Contest Announced

In response to the call for entries, the UltraCam team received roughly 100 image submissions posted to the UltraCam Facebook page. The images featured worldwide locations that included mountain ranges, national parks, coastlines, deserts, farmlands, urban centres, as well as points of interest such as national buildings and monuments, stadiums, museums, and aircraft in flight and on the ground. The submissions ranged in ground sample distance from 4-50cm and were captured by nearly every commercially available UltraCam sensor model including the UltraCamX, UltraCamXp, UltraCamLp and the original UltraCamD released in 2003.

The image submissions were evaluated by the UltraCam team and each photo was assigned a rating for its clarity, detail, colour quality, and uniqueness of content. From the contest entries, the following were recognised as the top twelve winners: Aerial Surveys Ltd., Motuhoa Island, Tauranga Harbour, NZ; Fugro Maps Ltd. Star Dunes, Sultanate of Oman; IMAO Aerial Survey Solutions, Sainte Marie Island, Madagascar East Coast; Aerial Surveys Ltd., SH1 Road & Rail Bridges, Waitake River, Otago,NZ; Terra Messflug GmbH, St. Johann, Tyrol, Austria (image); Infoterra Ltd., Shallow Coral Reef Shores, South Mauritius; Topocart, UHE Jaguari - São José dos Campos; Weser Airborne Sensing GmbH & Co. KG, Dresden, Germany; NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd., Peak of Mt. Taranaki, New Plymouth, NZ; Keystone Aerial Surveys Ltd., Sarasota, Florida; Astrium Services , Biggin Hill Airshow, London, UK and Aerial Surveys Ltd., Lake Waitaki, Otago, NZ.

These images are now featured on the new Multimedia page of the UltraCam website as well as in the entrance to the office of Microsoft subsidiary, Vexcel Imaging (Graz, Austria), headquarters for the UltraCam operation.