Abstract: A optoelectronic photo sensor to obtain single mosaic digital photographic images. Photo sensor is designed as a plurality of identical lenses having rows of staggered identical matrices arranged on a common focal surface with the gaps between adjacent matrices not exceeding the length of the effective number of pixels oriented along the row. Said arrangement provides a single large survey field from a plurality of individual matrices. Said design contemplates the use of several small individual lenses instead of one large and expensive lens, as well as many small matrices instead of one large and expensive matrix. The lenses are arranged at an angle to each other with a strictly defined dependence on the focal distance and the length of the gap between matrices in the row, which ensures continuous imaging by individual matrices over the surface surveyed with preset overlapping for subsequent cross-linking of images into one single film.

Abstract: A method and a device for obtaining Earth's image from a moving carrier in the field of remote sensing of the Earth, specifically, to aerial photography, and can be used for photogrammetry, monitoring of vast areas and extended objects, large-scale mapping surveys and engineering design and surveys. The method provides Earth photographing at an angle to the vertical, which gradually increases toward the ends of the frame's longer side oriented transversally to the flight direction. During the formation of subframes making the frame of central projection, all photo sensors are exposed simultaneously, and the frame's bandwidth to length ratio is maintained at the 1:5 . . . 100 range. The device comprises photo sensors fixed in a holding fixture in such a way that, their optic axes projections onto a vertical plane are at an angle to the vertical, said angle unidirectionally varies from one photo sensor to another by an amount not exceeding the projection of the photo sensor view angle to said plane.