Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or drones)

  • Vision Aerial Vector1 - a heavy payload hexacopter enabled with a Real Time Kinematics (RTK - high locational accuracy) and has a 5 kg payload capacity, a flight time of 40 minutes, and can cover up to 25 km
  • Vision Aerial Switchable - a medium payload tricopter with a 2 kg capacity, a flight time of 20 minutes, and can cover up to 16 km
  • DJI Matrice 2102 - a medium payload drone with a 1.5 kg capacity, a flight time of 15 minutes, and can cover 15 km. This platform has a 20.8 MP RGB camera
  • DJI Phantom 4 RTK - a high positional accuracy drone that can be used for high resolution mapping and photogrammetry in the visible spectrum

UAV Sensors

  • LiDAR - Green Valley LiAIR V70 has a wavelength of 905 nm, scan rate of 240,000 pts/s and a vertical accuracy of 2 cm (compatible with all drone platforms)
  • YellowScan Mapper - a lightweight, high-precision UAV LiDAR system with a wavelength of 905nm, a scan rate of 240,000 pts/s, and a vertical accuracy of 4 cm
  • Hyperspectral - Resonon Pika IR-L is a lightweight and compact Near-Infrared (925-1, 700 nm) imager (Vision Aerial drones only)
  • Multispectral - Micasense RedEdge with Five Spectral Bands (Red, Green, Blue, Red Edge, NIR) (Vision Aerial drones only)
  • RGB Cameras - a Sony a6400 with 24 MP resolution (Vision Aerial drones only)

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)

  • Emlid - RS2 units that provide two-centimeter accuracy with post processing
  • Septentrio PolaRx5 - rugged, research grade GNSS measurements with sub-centimeter accuracy

Computing

  • High Performance Computing - virtualized open-source environment with 100 concurrent users sears available with 800 CPU cores and 3TB of memory and 8 CPUs
  • Windows Geospatial Workstation - virtualized Windows workstation optimized for geospatial analysis and visualization with 32 CPUs and 8 GPUs. Full suite of open-source and licensed software
  • File Storage - 32 TB of redundant storage

 

1Vision Aerial is approved by the Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security, so there are no limitations to federal sponsors.

2DJI is not approved by the Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security.