Mission Statement
 Vision Air Research's mission is to provide economical and
reliable data collection and analysis to meet your compliance
and survey requirements. Natural resources, engineering, and
aviation professionals are ready to support your project.
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| Our long wave (8 - 12 microns) FLIR provides exceptional image clarity and superb solar immunity. The gyrostabilized gimbal houses both an IR and a natural color camera. Oblique and nadir (straight down) views are available. Both the IR and color camera provide geo-referenced video and still images. Geo-referenced video and images can be import into a GIS through an ESRI shapefile. Supporting images are permanently linked to the data collection point. |
| We used a PolyTech Kelvin 350 II (Sweden). The gimbal allows 330 o of azimuth and 90 o of elevation allowing us a wide range of look angles. The IR sensor installed in the gimbal is the high resolution Agema Thermovision 1000 which is a long wave system (8-12 micron). It has 800 x 400 pixels providing superb resolution and the ability to determine animals by their morphology or body shape. We can see the deer's ears. The minimum detectable thermal resolution is less than 1 o C which means it can detect objects that are only a degree Celsius different from the background. It has a wide (20 o) and a narrow (5 o) field of view (FOV). At 1,000 ft. above ground level looking straight down using the wide FOV the footprint or area covered by the sensor is 360 ft. x 234 ft. while the narrow FOV provides a footprint 90 ft. x 59 ft. Swath width of up to 0.5 mile is possible for ungulate surveys. It also has a SONY color video camera. |
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Vision Air Research is customer oriented.
Our airplanes and pilots meet the requirements of the Department
of Interior and Office of Aircraft Services and meet all FAA
commercial operating and licensing requirements.
The sensor operator sits in the rear seat and watches a high resolution 9 in. monitor to aim and focus sensor. We recorded the IR and natural color video on mini-digital videotape (Mini DV). All images are geo-referenced. |
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