About Us

This is Gigapan™!

The GigaPan system is the newest development of the Global Connection Project, which aims to help us meet our neighbors across the globe, and learn about our planet itself. GigaPan helps bring distant communities and peoples together through images that have so much detail that they are, themselves, the objects of exploration, discovery and wonder.

We believe that enabling people to explore, experience, and share each other’s worlds can be a transforming experience. Our mission is to make all aspects of the GigaPan experience accessible and affordable to the broadest possible community.

The GigaPan system was developed by Carnegie Mellon University and Charmed Labs, LLC in collaboration with NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group and with support from Google.

Organizing Committee

  • Illah Nourbakhsh, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Randy Sargent, Senior Systems Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University & NASA/Ames Research Center
  • Mary Jo Knelly, Fine Outreach Workshop Chair, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Emily Hamner, Fine Outreach Workshop Chair, Carnegie Mellon University