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Elphel, Inc. designs and manufactures
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cameras. The company was founded in 2001 by Russian physicist Andrey Filippov, who emigrated to the US in 1995. Elphel cameras have been used to capture images for
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and the
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project. The
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories The Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML) is a multi-campus marine research consortium of the California State University System, headquartered at Moss Landing, California. Organization Moss Landing Marine Laboratories is part of the California ...
use Elphel cameras in their project called Submersible Capable of Under Ice Navigation and Imaging (SCINI) – an
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-funded research project for robotic under the sea ice for surveying and exploration in Antarctica.


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Elphel official website
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