C-Astral Ltd. made a series of presentations of its Bramor UAS family and has introduced the new Bramor EO/IR/LI line. The new model has doubled flight endurance and is equipped with a new 30km LOS COFDM real-time video link.

In January and February 2013 C-Astral Ltd. made a series of flight demonstrations for the Italian General Secretariat of Defence on various locations in Slovenia and Italy. They presented the newest addition to the Bramor UAS family, the Bramor EO/IR/LI. The new system offers a doubled endurance with 180 minutes of flight. A set of 3-hour night flight demonstrations took place to disperse any doubts that the new system would be taking advantage of the thermals to prolong the flight time capability.

The new system has also demonstrated the 30km LOS digital COFDM real-time video link capabilities, an advanced solution for the next generation of situational awareness operations. The extensive presentations of video link capacities were made in Rome and Brindisi for the Italian General Secretariat of Defence, Carabinieri, Police, Fire Department, Civil Protection, Guardia di Finanza, Municipal Police, Italian Naval Special Forces, Italian Air Force and Rangers, who also took interest in multiple presentations of the Bramor gEO model and its capabilities.

During C-Astral’s visit in Italy the Bramor gEO model demonstrations were also performed for about 40 interested GIS companies and they are happy to report that orders for new systems are already taking place.

After C-Astral’s successful presentation of the new system for Italy, demonstrations were also requested by the Slovenian Army who expressed interest both in the Bramor EO/IR/LI and gEO capabilities. An additional sequence of presentational missions for the Slovenian Army took place during the first week of March.

C-ASTRAL Ltd.(www.c-astral.com), the Slovenian UAS manufacturer has flown an 80 minute mapping mission at 4150m ASL in support of the mining operations in one of the world’s highest mines, the Los Pelambres complex in the Chillean Andes. A precise DTM of the current mining area was created during the mission.  This record flight caps a 10 day series of operations at high altitudes for the C-ASTRAL BRAMOR system around Chile, including a linear mission that mapped the whole transportation system for the ore to the port of Los Vilos in two flights, for a total distance of more than 140km.

C-ASTRAL is also present at the AUVSI 2012 exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada, where they are presenting the new BRAMOR gHY aircraft together with MosaicMill and Rikola from Finland. The BRAMOR gHY is carrying the newly developed hyperspectral sensor system in addition to the C-ASTRAL standard 25MP imager. The hyperspectral imager was developed by the Finnish VTT Technical Research Centre and is marketed by Rikola Ltd. The “hyperspectral” BRAMOR gHY will become available on the market in Q1, 2013.

At AUVSI, C-ASTRAL also announced the sales of further 10 C-ASTRAL BRAMOR gEO systems to customers in South America, Malaysia, Finland and Australia and the start of US operations and university support sales in 2013.

C-ASTRAL will be presenting its surveying, software and video imaging and control UAS solutions at INTERGEO in Hannover in October 2012.

The Bramor gEO flight over the mine at 4150 ASL.

Initial orthomosaic & DTM preview processed just 1h after landing.

Congratulations to the team !

Many thanks to our Chilean partners: Pixer & Geosupport!

]]> http://c-astral.com/the-c-astral-bramor-geo-flies-a-mapping-mission-at-4150m-asl/feed/ http://c-astral.com/bramor-with-25-megapixel-now-avalible-with-geopilot-software-129cm-pixel-at-100m-agl/ http://c-astral.com/bramor-with-25-megapixel-now-avalible-with-geopilot-software-129cm-pixel-at-100m-agl/#comments Tue, 29 May 2012 22:30:40 +0000 samo_stopar http://c-astral.com/?p=1164 C-Astral Bramor GEO Surveying system is upgraded to a 25MP high quality sensor for taking georeferenced still images and 60 fps 1080p video.

1,29cm / Pixel at 100m AGL

GeoPilot software.

GeoPilot software takes UAV GEO Surveying to a whole new level.

Bramor can fly multiple GEO Survey missions in one 90 minute flight.

In 90 minutes of flight, large areas and user specific shapes can be georegistered together with roads, rivers, on user specific mission altitudes.

Special feature flyes Bramor UAV over 3d terrain!

GeoPilot Software can export georegistered dataset to any mosaicing or 3d software on the market, or can be modified specific to enduser.

Bramor UAV can take off from one location, automatically folow your vehicle to a survey location, do a GEO Survey mission and follow your vehicle to a landing spot.

Waypoints can be corected in real time, landing procedure changed anytime during flight, if wind changes. It will calculate wind drift and compensate parachute deployment location.

Fast setup, accurate tracking, equipped with holographic sight for UAV location estimation when flying outside visual range.

Vertical axis maximum payload more than 20kg !!!

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Montelibretti flight video