Surveying with up to 5 Sensors Simultaneously in One Flight

Wed 15 Jun 2011 03:24:00 PM EEST

15 June, 2011

Airborne Technologies today announced it had received full EASA certification for a multi sensor installation to acquire simultaneously ground data with airborne laser scanners, AISA Airborne Hyperspectral Scanners, thermal cameras and RGB digital cameras, all 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. “

For more information on AISA Airborne Hyperspectral Systems, please contact info@specim.fi

For further information on Airborne Technologies, please contact Marcus Gurtner, Chief Sales Officer, Phone +43 664 8845 3022, m.gurtner@airbornetechnologies.at