Gigapan

GigaPan Systems is a global, privately held technology company that provides hardware, software, and services to create and share high-resolution, interactive gigapixel panoramic images.

[1] GigaPan Systems was founded in 2008 as a collaborative project between Carnegie Mellon University and NASA’s Ames Research Center with support from Google.

The development team was led by Randy Sargent, a senior systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon West and the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., and Illah Nourbakhsh, associate professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.

GigaPan Systems combines high-definition images and panoramas with sharing, tagging and zooming capabilities.

The company offers a solution for shooting, viewing and exploring high-resolution gigapixel images in a single system.