Its 4X4X1.4mm in size and made in Israel just how sensitive can this unit be with such a tiny antenna? We can’t find a weight but it looks small enough to allow two or three units to be flown in a UAS for a similar weight to one unit such as the EM406. A tiny device to help your...
Scientists from the Finnish Meteorological Institute used small unmanned aircrafts to collect atmospheric data in a measurement campaign at the Finnish Aboa station located in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. During 26 flights they collected 61 vertical profiles in altitudes up to 1000m with fully automatic operating aircrafts. The three 70cm wingspan/580g weight aircrafts are modified Multiplex Funjet types that...
Helipse from the Charente region of France are sending three airframes to Fukushima Dai-Ichi. They have been fitted with radiation monitoring sensors and will also broadcast live video of the damaged facility. Laurent Grenier, 50, owner of the company will travel to Japan “There, in Tokyo, I’ll set the engines, installing sensors and programming the flight of three aircraft. Each...
Uppsala, Sweden, April 7th, 2011: Imint announce the appointment of three new distribution partners, to efficiently handle an increased international interest in the Imint product line, and to further accelerate global expansion. The new partners; Danish Aviation Systems, Golan Security & Consulting, and J&E Systech Co., will promote and sell Imint’s products in Denmark, Italy and South Korea respectively....
Microsofts free image stitching tool, ICE, just got smarter Stitching From Video ICE can now automatically stitch a panorama directly from video. One fun use of video panoramas is “motion summaries,” like this result that ICE produced: In this video the photographer was panning the camera to follow the motion of the snowboarder. I used ICE to indicate “Start”...
ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Army is testing prototypes of a new high-tech synchronization engine at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., which can combine video feeds and sensor data from multiple Unmanned Aircraft Systems on a single Ground Control Station, service officials said. “We are opening a gateway to information that we have never done before. Today, you can’t...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., March 21, 2011 — TiaLinx, Inc., a developer of remotely controlled mini-unmanned aerial and ground vehicles integrated with mm-wave miniaturized radars, today announced the launch of the Phoenix40-A. The mini-UAV system is capable of performing dual functions as a motion detector as well as probing for breathing of a hiding person in a compound. The mini-UAV...
FLIR Systems, Inc. announced today that it has teamed with Sonardyne International Ltd on a substantial multi-million dollar project in the United Arab Emirates. The companies, with FLIR as the project leader, will provide a commercial-off-the shelf (COTS), integrated perimeter and coastal protection solution for a key coastal facility. The installed CommandSpace solution will provide multi-dimensional, wide area surveillance...
Portland, OR - FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) is receiving strong demand for the Cobalt(tm), Star SAFIRE(r) and TALON(tm) classes of stabilized multi-sensor airborne systems for integration on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) across the world. Since the beginning of the year, FLIR has received orders for more than 130 airborne systems for a variety of applications and platforms in the Americas,...
Aerodata International Surveys (AIS) has captured the city of Sydney late January at 10 cm ground resolution using its revolutionary VisionMap A3 camera. Not only the flight mission burned nearly half the carbon dioxide if a conventional aerial survey camera was used but it also provided oblique viewing thanks to the camera unique sweeping technology. A part of the...
