Teal Drones has partnered with defense technology specialist Reveal Technology on software that seamlessly combines imagery from multiple drones to produce accurate 3D maps.
This partnership means military tactical teams have the ability to quickly generate accurate maps of areas targeted for military operations. This can mean the difference between mission success or failure.
As part of this collaboration, Reveal’s “Farsight” mapping software was recently demonstrated to US Army Special Operations Command in North Carolina.
As a division of Red Cat Holdings, Teal Drones launched the 4-Ship multi-drone system in June of this year to enable a single operator to simultaneously control up to four of its Golden Eagle drones.
4-Ship allows for instant and ongoing 360-degree surveillance of a target, while Farsight gives military teams almost real-time access to 3D maps of an area targeted by their operations.
These 3D Maps that can be overlaid with:
- Line-of-sight analysis, allowing a team to choose a route that is least visible to the enemy
- Terrain analysis and graphing
- AI-generated “best route” through a target area
- A vertical measurement tool, for determining the height of buildings and structures that are part of an operation
- A helicopter landing zone survey, to identify the best and safest spot to land
According to Teal Drones, these features, can provide a team with an advanced awareness of the situation, leading to more successful missions.
As Red Cat CEO, Jeff Thompson says:
A primary role of Teal Drones – which is one of only a handful of drone companies approved to provide equipment to the US military – is to provide a superior airframe upon which others build apps that allow the military to better meet their objectives, including warfighter safety mitigation. This integration of Reveal’s Farsight software with Teal’s 4-Ship product is one of the most important apps that has been developed for the Golden Eagle so far.
Prior to Farsight, military teams in the field were often dependent on overtasked and often separate intelligence organizations, which resulted in slow-moving intelligence analysis that did not match the fast-paced environment on the ground.
Farsight helps overcome this issue by blending state-of-the-art computer vision, AI and computing “at the edge” – computing in the field on handheld devices. Because all processing for Farsight is completed at the edge, no network connection is required, which eliminates the need for additional processing capabilities like servers or cloud infrastructure.
This not only speeds up the entire process, but allows the creation of detailed, actionable maps from virtually anywhere on the globe. And, especially importantly, computing at the edge does not increase the team’s electronic signature to the enemy, which, as seen in Ukraine, could attract artillery fire, among other responses.
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