Using the Railway Network as a Flatbed Scanner

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]

Using the Railway Network as a Flatbed Scanner

I have been capturing extremely wide photos by pointing an industrial linear camera out of a moving train window. This process involves stitching together thousands of image lines captured every second. I will discuss the challenges of measuring train speed accurately and collecting data fast enough to create a coherent image, along with the difficulties of processing and displaying such massive files.

I've been taking extremely wide photos by pointing an industrial linear camera out the window of a moving train and stitching together the several thousand lines captured per second after the fact.

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2026-07-31