BAE systems cooperates with Airborne Technologies for hyperspectral sensing

Wed 01 Sep 2010 01:55:37 PM EEST

During the exercise HydraVision II which took place in Porton Down (UK), BAE Systems was working together with Airborne Technologies for applying AISA hyperspectral sensors carried by their airborne platforms.

Hyperspectral data provides high resolution information about the spectral signature of the target, and this spectrum is unique for different materials, soil types, vegetation and man-made objects. As traditional sensing technologies deliver geometrical information from the surface hyperspectral sensing informs about what is down there and in which condition.

A participant of the exercise stated: "We are pleased with the new perspectives offered by this technology along with the accuracy Airborne Technologies delivered immediately after the data capturing flights and in the final post processing. We will continue working with them for next projects in order to mature hyperspectral data to a standard application."

Airborne Technologies deploys this technology together with LIDAR and Photogrammetry. This package offers new applications for agricultural health monitoring, archeology, environmental/water pollution monitoring, forest inventory and for the military scope telling man-made objects from vegetation despite camouflage.