Lead'Air Inc., the manufacturer of Track’Air aerial survey products, is unveiling a new nine-camera MIDAS system with one vertical camera and eight oblique cameras, covering a true 360 degrees. Instead of the classic four-oblique-camera arrangement facing forward, backward, left and right, the new Octoblique MIDAS adds four additional oblique cameras, doubling the amount of oblique photos collected without an increase in flying time.

The Octoblique’s four additional cameras deliver full coverage into the four corners, which are not seen by customary four-camera configurations. With eight cameras spaced at 45 degrees from each other instead of four cameras spaced at 90 degrees, the Octoblique looks in all directions around the airplane and leaves fewer angular blind spots uncovered.