CalUAS and Tetracam team to produce agricultural drones.
California Unmanned Aircraft Systems (CalUAS), a Ridgecrest, CA based leading unmanned aerospace firm, is teaming with Tetracam, maker of advanced multi-spectral imaging systems, to produce drones optimized to detect crop threats, improve crop management and maximize crop yield.
The Monarch™, a small unmanned aircraft system, is a battery powered robot capable of autonomous flight. When outfitted with specialized cameras from Tetracam this integrated UAV/Camera solution provides farmers, foresters and other managers of environmental assets with essential information once only available from manned aircraft or satellites.
Located near some of California’s vast agricultural producers, CalUAS provides a perfect complement to Tetracam’s products. “CalUAS is devoted to producing unmanned aircraft systems to meet the requirements of the precision agriculture community,” said Eileen Shibley, executive director of CalUAS. “We are pleased to be partnered with the company that invented and commercialized the first affordable multi-spectral digital cameras for agricultural sensing.”
Tetracam, a Chatsworth California company, was founded in 2000. Since that time the company has maintained leadership in the production of multi-spectral cameras for a variety of scientific uses. “Tetracam is dedicated to staying at the forefront of digital imaging and making the perfect sensors for our aircraft” says Jeff Parisse, robotics designer at CalUAS.
More information about CalUAS and Tetracam is available at: www.caluas.com and www.tetracam.com.
