Film-based and digital sensors - Augmentation or change in paradigm?

Recent technology developments provide new solutions for high-resolution image acquisition for photogrammetric applications. These cameras are based on large CCD-matrices as well as CCD-line sensors and fulfill both: large field of view and high spatial resolution. Single- or multi - line cameras have been designed for spaceborne, airborne and terrestrial scanners to provide high-resolution wide angle or even panoramic imagery. Such cameras allow new approaches of 3D scene visualization and reconstruction as well as new applications in airborne and close range photogrammetry. This has impacts on camera design and development, calibration, image acquisition and data processing, but also on business and market