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Italy’s CNR and IASMA choose Austria’s Airborne Technologies
These aerial research missions, operating out of Trento Matarello Airport have been initiated and coordinated by Prof. Dr. Franco Miglietta of IASMA and will be delivered via one of Airborne Technologies own aircraft, the Italian built TECNAM MMA (Multi Mission Aircraft) equipped with a multi sensor installation to acquire simultaneously ground data with airborne laser scanners, hyperspectral scanners, thermal cameras and RGB digital cameras, all in one flight.
The TECNAM MMA is based on the best selling TECNAM P2006T twin aircraft and represents the very best of Italian design and innovation. Created by Italy’s leading aerospace 'guru' Prof. Luigi Pascale and built in one of its two production facilities in Capua (CE), Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam srl exports its award winning aeroplanes to over 50 dealers around the world, delivering a new aeroplane every working day!
Critically Airborne Technologies in-house Research and Development team have taken the best that the Italian aerospace industry has to offer to both develop and certify the TECNAM MMA. It overcame a number of challenges to arrange for up to five state of the art, low weight and low power consuming sensors to look through one single fuselage opening in the aircraft.
Airborne Technologies investments in developing new sensor solutions for surveying purposes support many mission profiles, including but not restricted to: agriculture/forestry/environmental monitoring, aquatic biology/water supply and geology/soil sciences/physics/mineralogy/archaeology.
"I know that Prof. Dr. Franco Miglietta appreciated that these special aerial missions require a high qualified crew on board, where both the pilot and the sensor operator must have profound knowledge of all sensing technologies" said Airborne Technologies CEO Wolfgang Grumeth. "I’m delighted that both CNR (Consiglio Nationale Ricercha) and IASMA (Instituto Agrario San Michele all`Adige) have determined to build on the Italian /Austrian cooperation we have already established with our partners at Tecnam and we look forward to applying our advance sensor technology to support Italy’s research into the development of its natural resources."