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Mini-UAS Maps Buildings In Dubai

Lockheed Martin demonstrated the Indago quadrotor UAS equipped with an EO/IR payload over Dubai.

Lockheed Martin says its Indago UAS can accomplish diverse missions, including precision agriculture, firefighting, first response and mapping, plus surveying and inspections.

By Chris Pocock • Defense Correspondent

November 10, 2015

During the Robotic Technology Exhibition in Dubai six weeks ago, Lockheed Martin demonstrated the Indago quadrotor UAS equipped with an EO/IR payload. It was steered from a portable controller with software that allowed the operator “to focus on high-level mission execution rather than flight details” according to LM. Throughout the flight, the UAS fed video and data via an LM-developed fusion tool named Hydra, into a 3D earth model to produce a growing orthomosiac map of the area it was flying over.

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