DJI drones can gain important search-and-rescue (SAR) capabilities via the recently announced integration of FlySight’s Opensight software development kit with Centum’s Lifeseeker airborne cellphone location system. The combined system will be on display at European Rotors, which will be held November 28 to 30 in Madrid.
The system adds moving maps and augmented reality to tablet mission control (MC) stations. All information is transmitted in the Opensight-MC augmented reality environment and displayed on the operator's tablet screen, adding multiple layers of real-time synthetic information directly to a live video feed from the UAV.
This technology combination improves geolocation performance during SAR operations, even in night/instrument flight conditions, according to Centum, and is available for both crewed and uncrewed aircraft.
Centum designs, develops, and markets aeronautical mission systems for operations, while FlySight provides artificial intelligence solutions for command, control, computer, and communications for intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance using cognitive signal processing and adaptive data fusion algorithms.