RedKite is a lightweight, airborne wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) sensor developed by Logos Technologies, a defense contractor based in Fairfax, Virginia. The system is designed for force protection, border security, disaster response and other missions.[1] Weighing less than 35 pounds, RedKite is equipped with a 50-plus megapixel electro-optical camera and an onboard, eight-hour data processing/storage unit. This allows users to both image a city-sized area as well as conduct analyses of live and recorded imagery in the air, in real time.[2][3]
The RedKite WAMI system comes in two versions:
It is either housed in a pod that can be mounted to the hard point of a plane, helicopter, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or
It can be integrated directly into the payload bay of a tactical UAV (or U.S. Department of Defense Group 3 unmanned aircraft system).[4] This latter version, which is carried in the payload bay of the Insitu Integrator, is called RedKite-I.[5]
In terms of capability, RedKite resembles systems used by the U.S. military in both Iraq and Afghanistan, such as Constant Hawk and Kestrel Block I, but much lighter than these fielded sensors.[6]
^“RedKite: Lightweight Wide-Area Motion Imagery for Manned and Unmanned Aircraft.” Logos Technologies. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
^Mizokami, Kyle. “Tiny Drone-Based Surveillance System Can Watch Over a Entire Small Town.” Popular Mechanics. 2 March 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
^Maundrill, Beth. “Insitu and partners progress payload offerings.” Shephard Media Unmanned Vehicles. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
^Turnbull, Grant. ”AUSA 2017: RedKite-I soars to final testing.” Shephard Media Digital Battlespace. 11 October 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
^Arthur, Gordon. "RedKite and Kestrel payloads soar to greater heights" Shephard Media Digital Battlespace. 11 September 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
^Howard, Courtney. “HPEC enables onboard data processing for persistent surveillance.” Intelligent Aerospace. 22 September 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
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