EagleNXT (MicaSense) Altum-PT
Series: EagleNXT (MicaSense) Cameras for drones
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The MicaSense Altum-PT, a brand of the US company EagleNXT (formerly AgEagle), is a multispectral camera for mid-sized multicopters. It combines five spectral bands, a panchromatic channel and a radiometric thermal core in one housing and is used for crop and vegetation maps in agriculture and environmental monitoring.
The five multispectral channels sit at 475, 560, 668, 717 and 842 nm: blue, green, red, red edge and near infrared. Vegetation indices are computed from them, for example from red and near infrared. The panchromatic channel resolves 12.4 megapixels, higher than the spectral channels; the 12.4 MP figure refers to it and serves to sharpen the colour bands. The thermal core is a FLIR Boson 320R with 320 × 256 pixels and delivers a temperature value per pixel, not just an image. The connection is an open programming interface (API), and data is stored on CFexpress cards.
Thermal cores can fall under EU export control depending on frame rate (Dual-Use Regulation, limit 9 Hz). The weight counts towards take-off mass, whose class limits are 250 g (C0), 900 g (C1) and 4 kg (C2). The camera records terrain and property, so data-protection law applies.
Comparable reflectance values across several flights come only from calibration with a reflectance reference and a measurement of the incoming light; changes in cloud cover otherwise falsify the indices. The lenses must stay clean and free of scratches, because dirt shows in every channel. Firmware and calibration data are maintained together.
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| Image sensor | 5 Multispektralkanaele (475/560/668/717/842 nm) + panchromatisch 12, 4 MP + FLIR Boson 320Rcorrect |
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| Interface and mounting | offene API; CFexpress-Speichercorrect |
| Resolution (MP) | 12.4correct |
| Thermal resolution | 320x256correct |
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