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The LATTICE L8V is an eight-module linear array in a vertical frame — eight LATTICE 3.2MP camera modules held coplanar in a 2 x 4 portrait layout with per-module aluminum heatsinks and a 1/4-20 tripod mount. Every sensor sits on the same plane and fires on the same trigger, so the bands land in register. Each module is independently selectable: choose any combination of lens and filter for Modules 1 through 8 using the dropdowns above.

Every L8V ships fully assembled, synchronized, and tested. Modules can be swapped in the field as your requirements evolve.

Why Eight Modules, Two Wide?

Eight modules in a frame only two modules wide. It is the most spectral depth MAPIR offers per centimeter of mounting width.

That combination is what the L8V is for. Pole and mast installations, vehicle roll-bar and pillar brackets, greenhouse gantries, narrow gimbals, and conveyor or sorting lines all constrain width far more than height. Where an L9 will not clear the bracket, an L8V usually will, and you give up only one bay to get there.

The tall footprint also suits cross-track work: with the long axis of the array across the direction of travel, the wide-lens fields of view stack into a taller swath per pass.

What Eight Bays Buy You

Every bay is chosen independently. An M3C color module carries a fixed filter set — RGN, OCN and NGB are calibrated three-channel filters, and RGB is a conventional color camera for a true-color record — so a color bay gives you the bands that set carries. An M3M monochrome module carries a single narrowband channel, chosen from 23 filters spanning 385 to 988nm and isolated on its own sensor behind one interference filter, with no demosaic and no channel crosstalk.

Most arrays mix the two. Color sets are worth pairing when they land on different bands: RGN with OCN covers six unique bands and repeats nothing. RGN and NGB are not a useful pair — they share their green and NIR channels, so the second module buys you only one new band. Mono modules then fill what the sets do not reach: a common four-module build is RGB + RGN + F450 + F715, adding a blue and a red-edge band neither color set carries. Eight bays are enough to run the color sets you need and still place four or five narrowband channels exactly where your application wants them.

That is enough to bracket several absorption features at once — red edge for NDRE, a UV channel for surface and disease work, and a pair of NIR points to separate canopy structure from canopy moisture — while a true-color module keeps a conventional visual record of the same frame. It supports classification and machine learning pipelines that a smaller capture cannot feed.

You can also fill all eight bays with M3M monochrome modules for an all-narrowband array: eight discrete bands captured simultaneously across the same scene.

What's Included

The L8V array includes eight LATTICE camera modules mounted in a shared 2 x 4 vertical frame with an integrated 1/4-20 tripod thread in the base and aluminum heatsinks for passive thermal management. All eight camera modules are sealed to IP67, and all rear connectors — M12 X-coded GigE Ethernet (PoE) and M8 trigger sync — are waterproof.

Unlike the L1 through L4 arrays, the larger frames ship without a ventilated cowl. The open frame walls leave the heatsinks exposed to ambient air, and each module carries its own IP67 seal.

A note on cooling: how many heatsinks a module can carry depends on its position in the frame. The two middle rows have fewer free faces than the top and bottom, so those modules carry fewer heatsinks and will run warmer. Allow airflow across the frame in sustained or high-ambient deployments.

All eight modules connect to a single sync harness, ensuring simultaneous capture with less than 100μs offset between sensors. The global shutter on each module freezes the entire frame, enabling pixel-accurate band alignment even on moving platforms.

Each module requires its own M12-to-RJ45 Ethernet cable for data and power. An 8-camera sync cable harness connects all modules for synchronized triggering (add both above, and explore more accessories here).

Plan your switch capacity accordingly: eight modules means eight PoE ports and eight simultaneous GigE streams.

Choose Your Configuration

Select a lens and filter for each module independently:

Lens options: The L87 wide lens (3.5mm, f/2.8, 90° horizontal) covers broad scenes for area monitoring, canopy coverage, and aerial imaging. The L41 narrow lens (9.6mm, f/3.0, 41° horizontal) offers tighter framing for targeted measurement at greater standoff distances.

Filter options: An M3C color module carries a 3-channel filter set. RGN (Red, Green, NIR) is the most common choice for vegetation indices like NDVI. OCN (Orange, Cyan, NIR) provides an alternative band combination for certain crop and soil analyses. NGB (NIR, Green, Blue) is suited for water quality and coastal monitoring. Those three are calibrated narrowband sets. RGB is a conventional color camera for reference imagery and visual inspection — its channels are not calibrated and overlap as any color camera’s do, so it is a visual record rather than a measurement. An M3M mono module carries one narrowband filter instead, chosen from 23 options between 385nm and 988nm.

Common L8V configurations: RGN + OCN + six M3M mono — two color sets that share no bands, plus six narrowband channels placed where they leave gaps. RGB + RGN + OCN + five M3M mono — a true-color record alongside two color sets, with five narrowband channels for a targeted index set. Eight M3M mono — eight discrete bands and nothing else, for lab, greenhouse, and research work where band purity matters more than a visual reference. Three color + five mono on mixed focal lengths — the same spectral coverage captured wide and narrow in one pass.

Scales When You Do

The L8V is the tall array. The L6V shares its two-wide profile with six modules, and the L9 trades the narrow footprint for a 3 x 3 grid and nine modules. Below them, the L1, L2, L3, and L4 arrays carry one, two, three, and four modules in the smaller cowled frames, and the L5 and L6 cover five and six modules horizontally. Every LATTICE array connects to the same Chloros processing pipeline — calibration targets, DAQ ambient light sensors, and Chloros+ automation features work identically across all array sizes.

L8V Array Specifications