Western Australia’s First High-Tech UAV

Astron Environmental Services last month took possession of Western Australia’s first BRAMOR rTK unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), and are now applying the technology in the field for environmental applications. The purchase is the first of its kind in Australia and the second in Australia.

The BRAMOR rTK is a commercial grade UAS developed in Slovenia by aerospace enterprise and solution provider C-ASTRAL Aerospace Ltd. The system is ideally suited to surveying and remote sensing applications that need industry leading precision and large spatial area coverage.

C-ASTRAL is one of Europe’s market leaders in the development of small commercial fixed wing UAS/UAV and boasts a global presence, a robust research and development program and advanced sensor integration capabilities.

Will Wishart, Managing Director of Astron said, “We are absolutely thrilled to have received our first UAS from C-ASTRAL.”

“There is a big opportunity in our space to use technology such as UAV to complement traditional survey or monitoring approaches so we can make more informed decisions about the management of the environment.”

“We see a myriad of environmental applications, offering extremely valuable data, on demand, and for a relatively low cost.”

“We have absolutely no doubt that the data we will acquire for clients using the BRAMOR rTK, together with the processing and delivery of actionable information is going to revolutionise many aspects of environmental management,” Mr Wishart said.

Photo: Astron’s Geospatial Team (Top L-R) Joshua Kelcey, Will Wishart, Mehdi Ravanbakhsh, Sam Atkinson, Steven Tsang, Stuart Pearse (Bottom L-R) Tore Pedersen and Carl Dyde (Absent from photo: Damien O’Grady and William An)

Source: Spatial Source