What type of camera is used for those street level 360 degree view pictures on Google Earth ?

The car I've seen around Boston is a Chevy Cobalt with a roof rack full of cameras and antennas. No way to tell what the cameras are.



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"Google Street View displays scans taken from a fleet of Chevrolet Cobalt, Saturn Astra or Toyota Prius cars in North America, Opel/Vauxhall Astras in Europe, Holden Astras in Australia and New Zealand, Toyota Prius cars in Japan, Fiat Stilos in Brazil, Toyota Yaris' in South Africa [2] and Pontiac G5 in Mexico.[3] Pedestrian areas, narrow streets and park alleys that cannot be accessed by car are not always covered. However, sometimes Google Trikes (tricycles) are used.[4] On each of these cars (and tricycles) there are nine directional cameras for the 360掳 views, GPS units for positioning, three laser range scanners, manufactured by SICK, for the measuring of up to 50 meters 180掳 in the front of the vehicle. On the cars there are also 3G/GSM/Wi-Fi antennas for scanning 3G/GSM and Wi-Fi hotspots.[5] Recently, high quality images are based on open source hardware cameras from Elphel. These cameras are also used by Google book search."What type of camera is used for those street level 360 degree view pictures on Google Earth ?
One of the UK cars is based near my work. In this case it's a Vauxhall (GM) Astra with about a 3ft high pole attached to the roof-rack. On the roof rack are four wide angle cameras facing front, right, back and left.What type of camera is used for those street level 360 degree view pictures on Google Earth ?
im not 100 percent positive but i think it is a bunch of cameras that go off at the same time, because in some pictures they dont stitch the pictures together right and a car might be cut off at one partWhat type of camera is used for those street level 360 degree view pictures on Google Earth ?
Check this "objetivo panoramico":



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