A wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) system that weighs less than 30 lb (13.6 kg) has been carried in the internal payload bay of a small unmanned aircraft system for the first time, claims Fairfax, VA-based Logos Technologies.

Integrator Launch with Redkite Sensor. Source: Logos TechnologiesWeight reductions realized for the Redkite wide-area sensor enabled installation of the system aboard the Integrator small tactical unmanned aircraft. The small electro-optical system monitors a city-sized area of 12 sq km in near real-time, simultaneously detecting and tracking multiple geographically dispersed targets while also recording events for later analysis.

Redkite can also transmit up to 10 unique views to hundreds of users at one time and stores up to eight hours of mission data on onboard solid state drives.