For the first time, a wide-area motion imagery system has been carried in the internal payload bay of a small UAV.
The demonstration involved an Insitu Integrator tactical UAV and a Redkite WAMI sensor from Logos Technologies, according to a Logos announcement.
“In the past, we’ve mounted podded versions of our lightweight WAMI systems to rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft,” Logos President John Marion said. “Now, thanks to further reductions in weight, we can easily fit a Redkite inside a tactical unmanned platform, as demonstrated with our recent flights on the Insitu Integrator.”
Redkite weighs less than 30 pounds and can capture imagery of 12 square kilometers at once.
WAMI sensor tested on drone
