Aerial Information System

Overview

Time-critical field operations dependant on light aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other platforms require heightened situational awareness. Aerial Information (AI) System is UAV Vision’s real-time solution to this need, combining hardware and software in a powerful, low-cost stand-alone package.

The AI System software utilises UAV Vision’s camera gimbals to provide operators with increased situational awareness for a wide variety of applications. It provides users with a user friendly and intuitive application to view both EO and IR video feeds, geographical data and other information whilst connected directly to the system onboard the aircraft, or remotely as a ground station.

Additionally, with the UAV Vision Cloud Technology, an unlimited number of users can use AI System and log into a flight mission and view all video streams and the onboard operator’s actions live.

Benefits

The benefits of the UAV Vision AI System include:

Full control of the camera gimbal payload and the internal EO and IR sensors
Full situational awareness of camera pointing, platform location, and objects of interest around the platform
Dual video streams live to the operator
Integrates with UAV Vision's Cloud Technology to provide an unlimited number of users access to the operations live footage and operator controls (map markings, etc)
Map based time markings by the operator, to allow missions to be started from different times and locations during mission replay at a later time
Full correlation of still image grabs onto Google Earth maps, for combing live imagery with existing maps
Live EO and IR video recording
Full geo-referencing capability with UAV Vision's GEOLock module

Specifications

Key features and specifications include:

Dynamic map shifting, terrain height data, aircraft history/trail, and Point of Interest (POI) map overlays
Complete camera control (gimbal pan, tilt and zoom) integrated within the GUI accessible via the touchscreen or joystick
Control sensor attributes such as: stow position, gyro stabilisation, EO lens stabilisation, iris control, shutter speed, camera gain, focal lengths and customisable IR palette
With the UAV Vision Cloud Technology, users have the ability to connect to multiple flights during an incident, either locally or remotely as a ground station.
Receive live data and video feeds being broadcasted over an encrypted network.
Ability to log into an incident, add data and log out
Multiple video feeds - EO & IR in the case of the CM160
View data live locally from reconnaissance flights and remotely from multiple ground stations.
View daylight, and secondary sensor imagery such as thermal imaging.
Customise the layout of sensor feeds
Dynamic Map Overlays - draw lines, auto-calculate distances on map, draw polygonal areas and autocalculate area coverage
Geo-referencing of targets (requires UAV Vision GeoLock Module)
Live camera Field Of View (FOV), camera target location and platform position overlays
Single-click recording of camera and aircraft which are geo-referenced with GPS location, time-stamped, and contains correlating video snapshots of POI.
Observations can be transmitted locally to other machines, via email, FTP
Record video as .avi files, aircraft and camera attitude and geo-location, POI data and dynamic overlay
data as geospatial vector oriented Shape files