The paper proposes a data acquisition scheme applied to the power line inspection and introduces the composition and working principles of the data acquisition & recording system. In details
it utilizes an external trigger and multi-thread technology to acquire with high-speed and store the data of 3 CCD cameras and the position & orientation system (POS) and meantime makes the images and the POS data correspond to each other real-time by using the dynamic link library (DLL) developed by the acquisition board’s software development kit (SDK). In the end
part of the disposed data of the power line area are listed.