Schiebel and Areté Associates last year showed the integration of the Camcopter S-100 UAV and the PILLS sensor package in a demonstration sponsored by the ONR. (Schiebel)

The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) has confirmed a contract award to Areté Associates for the further development of its Pushbroom Imaging LIDAR for Littoral Surveillance (PILLS) airborne sensor system.

PILLS is a lightweight, low-power, expeditionary sensor able to produce accurate, high-resolution topographic and bathymetric maps from manned and unmanned airborne platforms to greater depths than commercially available legacy systems. Mounted on a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the PILLS payload enables rapid surveying of a terrain or body of water for navigation hazards or other operationally relevant features. The platform is particularly effective in environments inaccessible to larger surveying ships and systems.

Areté Associates is the original developer of PILLS, which employs a pulsed laser fan beam using an extremely accurate streak tube imaging LIDAR receiver. For each laser pulse, PILLS maps out an image of objects within the fan beam – as the air vehicle moves forward, the system maps out a three-dimensional image of objects along the flight path.

Schiebel and Areté Associates last year showed the integration of the Camcopter S-100 UAV and the PILLS sensor package in a demonstration sponsored by the ONR. (Schiebel)

The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) has confirmed a contract award to Areté Associates for the further development of its Pushbroom Imaging LIDAR for Littoral Surveillance (PILLS) airborne sensor system.

PILLS is a lightweight, low-power, expeditionary sensor able to produce accurate, high-resolution topographic and bathymetric maps from manned and unmanned airborne platforms to greater depths than commercially available legacy systems. Mounted on a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the PILLS payload enables rapid surveying of a terrain or body of water for navigation hazards or other operationally relevant features. The platform is particularly effective in environments inaccessible to larger surveying ships and systems.

Areté Associates is the original developer of PILLS, which employs a pulsed laser fan beam using an extremely accurate streak tube imaging LIDAR receiver. For each laser pulse, PILLS maps out an image of objects within the fan beam – as the air vehicle moves forward, the system maps out a three-dimensional image of objects along the flight path.

Schiebel and Areté Associates last year showed the integration of the Camcopter S-100 UAV and the PILLS sensor package in a demonstration sponsored by the ONR. (Schiebel)

The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) has confirmed a contract award to Areté Associates for the further development of its Pushbroom Imaging LIDAR for Littoral Surveillance (PILLS) airborne sensor system.

PILLS is a lightweight, low-power, expeditionary sensor able to produce accurate, high-resolution topographic and bathymetric maps from manned and unmanned airborne platforms to greater depths than commercially available legacy systems. Mounted on a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the PILLS payload enables rapid surveying of a terrain or body of water for navigation hazards or other operationally relevant features. The platform is particularly effective in environments inaccessible to larger surveying ships and systems.

Areté Associates is the original developer of PILLS, which employs a pulsed laser fan beam using an extremely accurate streak tube imaging LIDAR receiver. For each laser pulse, PILLS maps out an image of objects within the fan beam – as the air vehicle moves forward, the system maps out a three-dimensional image of objects along the flight path.

Schiebel and Areté Associates last year showed the integration of the Camcopter S-100 UAV and the PILLS sensor package in a demonstration sponsored by the ONR. (Schiebel)

The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) has confirmed a contract award to Areté Associates for the further development of its Pushbroom Imaging LIDAR for Littoral Surveillance (PILLS) airborne sensor system.

PILLS is a lightweight, low-power, expeditionary sensor able to produce accurate, high-resolution topographic and bathymetric maps from manned and unmanned airborne platforms to greater depths than commercially available legacy systems. Mounted on a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the PILLS payload enables rapid surveying of a terrain or body of water for navigation hazards or other operationally relevant features. The platform is particularly effective in environments inaccessible to larger surveying ships and systems.

Areté Associates is the original developer of PILLS, which employs a pulsed laser fan beam using an extremely accurate streak tube imaging LIDAR receiver. For each laser pulse, PILLS maps out an image of objects within the fan beam – as the air vehicle moves forward, the system maps out a three-dimensional image of objects along the flight path.

Schiebel and Areté Associates last year showed the integration of the Camcopter S-100 UAV and the PILLS sensor package in a demonstration sponsored by the ONR. (Schiebel)

The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) has confirmed a contract award to Areté Associates for the further development of its Pushbroom Imaging LIDAR for Littoral Surveillance (PILLS) airborne sensor system.

PILLS is a lightweight, low-power, expeditionary sensor able to produce accurate, high-resolution topographic and bathymetric maps from manned and unmanned airborne platforms to greater depths than commercially available legacy systems. Mounted on a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the PILLS payload enables rapid surveying of a terrain or body of water for navigation hazards or other operationally relevant features. The platform is particularly effective in environments inaccessible to larger surveying ships and systems.

Areté Associates is the original developer of PILLS, which employs a pulsed laser fan beam using an extremely accurate streak tube imaging LIDAR receiver. For each laser pulse, PILLS maps out an image of objects within the fan beam – as the air vehicle moves forward, the system maps out a three-dimensional image of objects along the flight path.

Schiebel and Areté Associates last year showed the integration of the Camcopter S-100 UAV and the PILLS sensor package in a demonstration sponsored by the ONR. (Schiebel)

The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) has confirmed a contract award to Areté Associates for the further development of its Pushbroom Imaging LIDAR for Littoral Surveillance (PILLS) airborne sensor system.

PILLS is a lightweight, low-power, expeditionary sensor able to produce accurate, high-resolution topographic and bathymetric maps from manned and unmanned airborne platforms to greater depths than commercially available legacy systems. Mounted on a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the PILLS payload enables rapid surveying of a terrain or body of water for navigation hazards or other operationally relevant features. The platform is particularly effective in environments inaccessible to larger surveying ships and systems.

Areté Associates is the original developer of PILLS, which employs a pulsed laser fan beam using an extremely accurate streak tube imaging LIDAR receiver. For each laser pulse, PILLS maps out an image of objects within the fan beam – as the air vehicle moves forward, the system maps out a three-dimensional image of objects along the flight path.