Swiss airborne mapping company Leica Geosystems has teamed up with German UAS manufacturer Aibotix to create a one-stop shop for infrastructure inspection and mapping. Continue reading
Category Archives: Payloads
Lab Research Cuts Imagery Evaluation Costs for US Navy Triton Programme
An engineer at Naval Air Station Patuxent River is leading an initiative that will save the Navy’s MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System programme several hundred thousand dollars. Continue reading
sUAS Completes Photogrammetric Survey of Easter Island Volcano
Edafica, a Chilean environmental management and consulting company has successfully performed the acquisition of aerial images at Rano Kau volcano located in the south-west corner of Easter Island. Continue reading
Aurora Tests Airborne Greenhouse Gas Instrumentation in Preparation for Arctic Mission
Aurora Flight Sciences announced that it has successfully integrated an advanced greenhouse gas measurement system on its Centaur Aircraft, obtained an FAA airworthiness certification for flight operations, and performed flight tests over the Chesapeake Bay.
Google Ventures Bets $10.7M on UAS App Ecosystem Developer
Google Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz Wednesday announced a $10.7 million investment in Airware, a company that is creating a common platform for UAS that will allow developers to create industry-specific applications for unmanned aircraft without worrying about the specific underlying hardware. The company is run by Jonathan Downey, 29, who wants to be the Bill Gates of the commercial UAS industry. Continue reading
UTC Launches New Cloud Cap Technology HD Gimbals
UTC Aerospace Systems has launched a new line of Cloud Cap Technology HD TASE stabilised camera systems. Continue reading
Hood Tech’s Gyro-Stabilised Imaging Systems for UAS
HoodTech Vision, a manufacturer of low size, weight and power (SWaP) stabilised imaging systems for small manned and unmanned systems, will showcase two advanced gyro-stabilised systems at the Defense, Security + Sensing 2013 show last week at the Baltimore Convention Centre in Baltimore, Maryland (US). Continue reading
Insect-Eye Camera Offers Wide-Angle Vision for Nano UAS
New “insect eye” cameras could someday help small UAS to see into every corner of a battlefield or give tiny medical scopes an all-around view inside the human body. A team of researchers from the United States has constructed such a camera, which offers an almost 180-degree field of view using hundreds of tiny lenses. Continue reading