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The Canadian Coast Guard is conducting trials of the long-endurance Vertical Take-of and Landing (VTOL) UAS surveillance system for possible deployment on Canadian Coast Guard Vessels under a project funded by Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC). The Shield AI V-BAT aircraft was selected due to its unique ability to combine VTOL from the small confines aboard ship with the long endurance of a fixed-wing aircraft while carrying multiple sensors.

The V-BAT operators used Kongsberg Geospatial’s IRIS GCS software to safely pilot the aircraft at long ranges from the launch vessel. The IRIS software provides a comprehensive situational awareness picture of the operational airspace, data from a variety of sensors and data feeds – and shows the location of other aircraft and surface ships, as well as the launch vessel and the “ownship”, or drone being operated.

Ottawa, CA: Kongsberg Geospatial, a geospatial software technology company, announced today that their TerraLens geospatial software development kit (SDK), was selected by Ultra to provide the geospatial display and rendering engine for the next generation of US Navy Surface Search Radars.

Kongsberg Geospatial, along with its partner SFL Scientific, will demonstrate how a medium-sized commercial drone carrying a sensor package can autonomously recognize chemical threats, identifying and ultimately displaying invisible hazardous plumes, in real-time.

This implementation fuses data from a visual, thermal, multichannel chemical sensor (the FLIR MUVE C360), with environmental, and location data using a dedicated AI processor (the NVIDIA Jetson). The system leverages SFL custom bleeding-edge Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Graph Deep Learning models to autonomously identify threats.

The resulting sensor picture, including threat identification and route suggestions from the AI systems, will be displayed in an integrated picture within Kongsberg Geospatial’s IRIS ground control station (GCS) system. IRIS is an airspace situational awareness system developed to provide drone operators with the necessary situational awareness to safely operate one or more drones Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight (BVLOS).

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Ottawa, CA: Kongsberg Geospatial announced today that it has partnered with Avalon Holographics to develop a revolutionary holographic sonar display for submarine warfare, in a project funded by the Canadian Department of National Defense IDEaS (Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security) program.