As the German air force maps out its future unmanned aircraft plans, it is looking to acquire up to four high-altitude unmanned aircraft for wide-area surveillance.
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COTS and Open Standards Drive UAS Control Station Architectures
Designers of control stations for unmanned vehicles primarily use commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) embedded products, but there has never been a common architecture developed for all UAS ground control stations.
New Data Acquisition Board from Pentek
Pentek Inc. is introducing the model 71640 data acquisition board for military radar, military communications, and unmanned aircraft system applications. The embedded computing module can digitize one 12-bit channel at 3.6 GHz, or two channels at 1.8 GHz, and has provisions synchronize several boards for capture and analysis of even wider bandwidths. Continue reading
Algorithm Allows Sensors to Geo-Localize
Photo Taken Using SLAM Algorithm during Tests at the Great Plains Joint Training Center’s Crisis City
Kansas State University’s Dale Schinstock has developed and continues to refine an algorithm that allows sensors on an unmanned aircraft to build a map of the environment and determine its location in that map.
AAI Enters 5 Year Research Agreement with US Army
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, announced yesterday that it has entered into a five-year cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, Communications-Electronic Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC).
Military Video Image-Stabilisation Technology Now Available For Home Use
Aerostat and Shadow Test Joint Tactical Radio Systems
Persistent Surveillance System at Camp Julien, Afghanistan
Aerostat blimps and Shadow Unmanned Aircraft Systems configured with Joint Tactical Radio Systems, or JTRS, have been flying above the desert terrain at White Sands Missile Range, N.M, during the Army’s Network Integration Evaluation. Continue reading
NASA UAS Flies Greenhouse Gas Mission Over Nevada Salt Flat
Photo: NASA
Scientists from NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, joined a multi-institute team of researchers June 17-27, 2011, to investigate carbon dioxide and methane gas emissions from a dry lake bed and neighbouring environment in Railroad Valley, Nevada. During the campaign, the Ames team conducted a series of flights with an unmanned aircraft system outfitted with AVIRIS, MASTER, and S-HIS instruments.