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Surveying with up to 5 sensors simultaneously in one flight
Airborne Technologies R&D team 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. Additionally all sensors must fit together in terms of swath, resolution and flight height and are synchronized by the same geo-referencing system and pilot flight guidance system.
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.
Projects for archaeology applications have recently been completed successfully by Airborne Technologies geodesy department.
"Spectral information, RGB images and LiDAR point clouds obtained at the same time avoid discrepancies of the area due to time related changes on the vegetation or on buildings" said Mario Rathmanner, Director Data Acquisition and Processing at Airborne Technologies. "With this new multi sensor solution available on our entire fleet, we are capable providing a greater level of information to our customers and offering a more cost effective and economical method for rapid data acquisition."
"These aerial missions require a high qualified crew on board, the pilot and the sensor operator must have profound knowledge of all sensing technologies" said Airborne Technologies CEO Wolfgang Grumeth. "I'm especially proud that our in-house experts have been successfully working together to develop, mature and certify this new surveying solution on our Multi Mission Aircraft. "
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Using Stonehenge in the UK as a target, Airborne Technologies Multi Sensor Suite provides simultaneous acquisition of Hyperspectral, RGB and LiDAR data.
1. Sensors installation in Multi Mission Aircraft
2. LiDAR data provides accurate geometrics and geo-referencing (RIEGL Laser Scanner)
3. High resolution RGB images discover hidden details of the target (IGI DigiCAM)
4. Automatic material classification using hyperspectral data (SPECIM AisaEAGLE)