Elphel, Inc. designs and manufactures open hardware and free software cameras.[1][2] The company was founded in 2001 by Russian physicist Andrey Filippov, who emigrated to the US in 1995.[3]
Elphel cameras have been used to capture images for Google Street View[4] and the Google Books project.[5] The Moss Landing Marine Laboratories use Elphel cameras in their project called Submersible Capable of Under Ice Navigation and Imaging (SCINI) – an NSF-funded research project for robotic under the sea ice for surveying and exploration in Antarctica.[6]
