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Lockheed Martin ’s Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter-Concealment-Enabled Radar, TRACER, has completed flight testing aboard a Predator B MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial System. TRACER is a dual-band (UHF and VHF) synthetic-aperture radar capable of detecting and geo-locating objects that are buried, camouflaged or concealed under foliage.
MAVinci, based in Leimen near Heidelberg, Germany, has announced the introduction of SIRIUS II – a fully integrated orthofoto UAS. The system obtains aerial images and calculates orthofotos and three dimensional elevation models out of the image data.
Goodrich Corporation’s ISR Systems’ Princeton team (formerly Sensors Unlimited, Inc.) has introduced the smallest SWaP (size weight and power) short wave infrared camera for unmanned vehicles.
Mercury Computer Systems Inc. is now providing a SWaP-optimized hyper-spectral image processing and storage subsystem for use in multi-INT wide area surveillance equipment on UAS.
Aeryon Labs has announced the VideoZoom10x payload for the Aeryon Scout Micro VTOL UAS – a 1.2 kg man-packable UAS. With the ability to detect a human from over 2km away and identify someone from over 300m, the VideoZoom10x payload instantly delivers high-resolution, real-time tactical intelligence to the hands of an operator.
KinetX Inc., a small aerospace technologies company based in Tempe, Arizona, announced that it has expanded its offerings with sub-systems for UAS.
GE Intelligent Platforms is introducing a family of rugged, off-the-shelf Embedded Computing systems for unmanned aircraft systems and unmanned ground vehicles.
Students at MIT have developed a real-time visual odometry system that can use a Kinect to provide fast and accurate estimates of a vehicle’s 3D trajectory.