UAVs Australia

Gary Mortimer

Australian distributor UAV Australia outline their wares.

Using our UAVs would provide specific benefits: They provide “eyes in the sky” around the bend, over the horizon or several miles ahead of any mission or task Provide an alternative to working in the dark They can be fitted with infrared cameras as well as video or digital still cameras. Live images are fed back to the Ground Control Station and they can dispatch those images over the Internet anywhere in the world They improve and enhance security on the ground They are economical – the cost of flight in the air is close to $2.00 per hour. A typical helicopter or light aircraft will cost $800 – $1,000 per hour Their ability to fly out 7 to 23 miles from Ground Control Station means they can patrol any area – Use an extender system and they have the capability to fly globally. They are equipped with GPS so their location is accurately tracked and provides accurate indices of where your target is located for a return “visit” They can be set for predetermined flight patterns day and night All of the hardware is COTS (Commercially available off the shelf).

The UAVs are mainly used for aerial filming and surveying but check out the attached brochure and also have a look at the sites of our suppliers for more uses. Whether you are filming a boat or car for photography or inspection or you want to monitor progress on construction of a building or you want to inspect gas pipes for leaks, we can do it all. We have a wide range of products that would be very suitable for your company to use to inspect and/or track assets, infrastructure in remote areas or just to collect footage for use in news, company publications or for intelligence. I am unsure to your current arrangement about how you do this. If you use normal aeroplanes and helicopters, they cost around $800 to $1000 to run per hour. Our solution, which are also extremely cheap compared to normal manned aircraft, cost around $2 an hour to run. If you take away the cost of maintenance and other costs associated with manned aircraft, a large company could save millions of dollars every year. The other bonus to our system is that ANYONE can fly them. The only thing you have to do do is input where you want the helicopter/plane to go into the laptop and the aircraft takes off, flies and lands all by itself. All the “operator” has to do then is view/control the video camera/s and

inspect the infrastructure. If they notice anything abnormal, they simply cancel the flight plan and input a new on the see what the problem is. Once this is done, they simply re-assign a flight plan and off they go again. All this can be done from the comfort of an office.

So say an organisation has previously photographed an area, they can re-photograph after an incident and have all the images put into one photo once again. This allows for the full scope of damage to be assessed from anywhere in the world. This is perfect for post fire or

post disaster management as the rescue crews can see how much has happened. This can be incorporated with any mapping software such as Google Earth so anywhere in the world can be re-assessed after an incedent.

They are perfect for Fire Spotting as the UAV can be programmed to fly at 20, 000 feet and cover a certain area. The UAV would usually fly with an IR camera and a normal HD digital camera. All that needs to be done is that someone watches the video for the sensitive heat spots, gets the GPS coordinates and dispatches this to the ground crew. Also, as they can fly for longer than 16 hours, at altitudes of 20, 000+ feet (6.1 km) and at speeds in excess of 90 knots (167 km/h), meaning they can survey huge areas. After one day of training, the most inexperienced “Pilot” can safely and skilfully fly any mission.

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