Onboard internal storage of 64+ GB is also an option.

Idaho National Laboratory Completes Rapid Airfield Damage Assessment System demonstration with RaptorEye

INL used Airborne Innovations’ RaptorEye imaging system combined with a state of the art Prosilica 16 Megapixel GigE camera and the Arcturus T15 aircraft to perform a rapid acquisition and transmission demonstration for the Air Force Research Laboratory.

16 megapixel images were acquired every few seconds, automatically triggered based on aircraft flight plan location, and transmitted via broadband datalink to the ground for mosaicing.

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courtesy INL

Case study of INL RADAS RaptorEye configuration

See also the Sample Imagery

Visit us at AUVSI 2008 in booth 737, Optimum Solutions

RaptorEye Brochure

IceWarning Brochure

Visit us at UVS Canada in booth 10 as part of the Raven Project

Case study of Raven Project See and Avoid research using the RaptorEye (now using broadband 2.4 / 5.8 GHz datalink)

We are proud to release RaptorEye, our newest UAV imaging system payload!
It combines extremely high computing performance, a high speed integrated UHF megabit datalink (or optional external broadband datalink such as the Microhard VIP-2400/VIP-5800 links), and support for Lumenera and many other multi-megapixel digital cameras.
The system has a Core 2 Duo processor (various performance / power consumption options) 4 USB 2.0 ports, gigabit ethernet, 2 RS232/RS422 ports, optional firewire or analog video capture, and more.
The system provides realtime downlink of high resolution imagery, and can support downlink of imagery from multi-megapixel digital cameras mounted in the Cloud Cap TASE family of gimbals.
The system can also fill the role of Open Aerial Imaging Platform for general purpose high performance aerial computing, imaging and video processing.

Product brochure is available at:
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UAVs to Patrol the Torres Straits

Case study of satcomm imaging configuration with current generation RaptorEye system

Aerosonde successfully deploys Airborne Innovations’ Satcam imaging system for Coastwatch Australia trial
September 2005

Australian UAV company Aerosonde was awarded a $600,000 contract to undertake UAV surveillance and detection trials for Coastwatch in the Torres Strait in 2005-06.

Airborne Innovations supplied Aerosonde with Satcam systems to allow near-realtime satellite transmission and archiving of daylight, low light, and large format digital still images.

The Satcam system is an enabling technology for beyond line of sight imaging for small long-endurance UAV’s such as the 15 kg, 3 meter wingspan Aerosonde.

Aerosonde press release

Case study of satcomm imaging configuration with current generation RaptorEye system

Airborne Innovations imaging systems now feature automatic georeferencing, image mosaicing, orthocorrection, and realtime map mosaic display!

The system obtains aircraft data from a Piccolo UAV avionics or standard NMEA source via a secondary serial port.  Aircraft metadata including GPS data and attitude are attached to the image, and the ground-based imagery application georeferences the images and displays and mosaics the georeferenced images on a map display as they arrive in realtime.  The system outputs georeferenced images, aircraft metadata, and raw images for a high degree of flexibility.

An aircraft-view image simulator is also provided to test the system on the ground.

Automatic image mosaicing and georeferencing from an autonomous scanning flight plan with a Piccolo avionics.
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Realtime image mosaic zooming capability:
Shockwave Demo