GRF-500 is LightWare’s new gimbal-integrated laser rangefinder (LRF), developed for elevated depth notion and distance ranging onboard your UAV.
Our designers know that first responders want – a gimbal-integrated LRFs that allow EO/IR sensor payload fusion that’s optimized for weight, out there onboard energy and integration points. The GRF-500’s mission is to reinforce the success of UAV groups working within the safety, surveillance, rescue, legislation enforcement and conservation roles, supporting true sensor fusion in all situations.
Search. Find. Rescue.
First responder groups utilizing UAVs within the search and rescue (SAR) mission set, want a sensor payload that works to cowl the widest doable search space whereas permitting for the longest doable flight time. That’s the place altitude is vital, and GRF-500 turns into an enabler.
At greater flight altitudes, the UAV’s EO/IR digital camera payload has a larger discipline of view over the searched space and terrain. Correct depth and distance measurements are essential to create the sensor fusion required for the UAV’s EO/IR payload to stay efficient in that search space.
With 500m/1640ft of distance and detection capacity, GRF-500 permits SAR groups to fly at greater altitudes, rising the viewable search space and the likelihood of discovery when looking for lacking individuals.
Past altitude, flight endurance is one other essential issue for UAVs working within the SAR mission. Each minute of extra flight and hover time will increase the search space’s attain. Extreme weight and energy draw can deplete UAV battery energy and shorten flight endurance. GRF-500 maximizes flight time by delivering all of the capabilities of a longer-range high-performance gimbal-integrated LRF, at an extremely low weight of 10.7g (0.377oz) and tremendously environment friendly energy draw of solely 120mA.
Grams and milliamps matter when your UAVs want to stay in flight longer to finish advanced search patterns. GRF-500’s ultra-low weight and power-optimized design assist preserve your UAV property within the air for longer throughout these demanding SAR missions, by drawing the least quantity of battery energy whereas delivering wonderful LRF performance.
Intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and stealth
Legislation enforcement companies liable for border monitoring and safety worth stealth. Any UAV working within the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) mission, wants to watch and establish with out being seen. That makes stealth an indispensable characteristic for UAVs within the ISR position.
GRF-500 delivers capabilities that assist ISR groups retain stealth benefit when working their UAVs. The primary of those is decreasing sound signature. The GRF-500’s highly effective and correct ranging of as much as 500m (1640ft), permits an ISR staff to fly at greater altitudes whereas retaining sensing skills with the terrain beneath. Greater altitudes scale back the rotor wash and motor buzz sound signature of a UAV, making certain larger sound stealth throughout an ISR mission.
The opposite stealth factor for any UAV working within the ISR position at night time is visible identifiability to nighttime imaginative and prescient goggles. This subject turns into extra pronounced when groups function in dry and dusty situations, the place the LRF’s beam can turn out to be seen because of mild scattering off mud particles. To counter this, the GRF-500 has a software program operate that enables operators to toggle its beam, making the laser invisible to anybody utilizing night time imaginative and prescient goggles to detect an ISR staff’s UAV.
Essential for conservation
Wildlife and conservation operations are among the most rewarding however difficult for UAV groups, requiring all the advantages GRF-500 brings to a sensor payload.
Animals are excellently tailored to their habitat and predator risk avoidance, making them masters of camouflage and hyper-sensitive to noise. That makes them very troublesome to trace, establish and handle. Add poachers pursuing susceptible species, and a floor response staff urgently must know when and the place to intercept a UAV’s sensor fusion makes the distinction.
The upper hover altitudes create stealth benefits for UAV groups working within the SAR and ISR roles, are additionally invaluable for wildlife and anti-poaching operations. Endangered species continuously hounded by poachers develop a wonderful sense of listening to, and a UAV’s motor or rotor noise can simply set off a flight and conceal response. That very same precept applies to poachers, who’re hyper-aware of being tracked whereas illegally looking for endangered wildlife.
With its 500m/1640ft depth and distance detection, GRF-500’s vary allows conservation groups to fly greater, masking their UAV’s sound signature to trouble the animals they’re looking for to find and shield and the poachers they should intercept.
Actually seamless integration
LightWare is trusted by international UAV designers and gimbal builders to create ultra-compact, high-performing sensors. We perceive the worth of bringing essentially the most efficiency onboard your UAV’s gimbal sensor payload, with seamless integration. GRF-500’s dimensions measure to 32mm x 34mm x 21mm (1.3in x 1.4in x 0.8in), packaging highly effective longer-range efficiency right into a terrifically compact package deal.
The performance-to-weight ratio of LightWare’s latest gimbal-integrated LRF is superb. LightWare’s superior design saves grams and milliamps, enabling all of the GRF-500’s correct ranging, from 0.2- to 500m (0.6- to 1640ft), with out extreme energy draw in your UAV’s battery.
Designed to optimize your UAV’s sensor fusion with seamless integration, LightWare has all of the equipment required to configure GRF-500 to your wants, from USB and communication cables, to Pixhawk adaptors and breakout boards.
A gimbal-integrated LRF designed to seamlessly turn out to be a vital a part of your UAV’s sensor payload, the ultra-compact and high-performance GRF-500 excels at border monitoring, conservation, safety, security and SAR, in demanding situations.
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