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  • Categorize roads in real time with new kit

    RAK equipment records video and tracks GPS coordinates of distressed roads.
    RAK equipment records video and tracks GPS coordinates of distressed roads. Photo: RAK 

    Red Hen Systems Inc. is offering a way to accurately categorize road conditions and linear miles.

    The Road Assessment Kit (RAK) can be installed and operated for assessing roads, bridges, curbs, sidewalks, signs and more.

    The all-in-one system uses real-time video geotagging with Red Hen’s patented video mapping system, the VMS-333. The VMS-333 connects to a GPS receiver and camera or video recorder to automatically geotag photos, videos and audio notes with GPS coordinates.

    The data can then be analyzed in Google Earth with isWhere, Red Hen’s geospatial media mapping software, which provides a track log of the route traversed. Data can also be mapped in Esri ArcMap.

    A screenshot of isWhere.
    A screenshot of isWhere. Photo: RAK 

    The survey hardware can be moved from one vehicle to another in 30 minutes or less and is suitable for routine vehicle operation in between annual road surveys.

    Using GoPro cameras, the kit can capture up to four views with GPS data points in a single data collect.

     

  • Red Hen’s modular defense kits capture first-person views

    Red Hen’s modular defense kits capture first-person views

    THISR modular kits provide the tools needed to capture the first-person view on the battlefield. (Photo: Bruce Donaldson, THISR team leader, Red Hen Systems)
    THISR modular kits provide the tools needed to capture the first-person view on the battlefield.
    (Photo: Bruce Donaldson, THISR team leader, Red Hen Systems)

    The Tactical Handheld Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (THISR) by Red Hen Systems is an advanced intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) asset providing a real-time solution to operators and mission teams.

    The modular kits provide the tools needed to capture the first-person view on the battlefield. The THISR is a custom integration of cameras, a laser rangefinder, GPS unit and software linked through Red Hen System’s VMS-333 mapping system.

    THISR is the integration of three core collection technologies:

    • Random Access Full Motion Video (RAFMV) with mapping integration
    • 360° immersive rendering
    • light UAV/UAS

    Together, all three technologies provide critical information to the operator for use in planning superior missions, enhancing situational awareness and protecting forces, the company said.

    The kits offer near-real-time dissemination and surveillance, and can be integrated with other technologies.

    The THISR options.
    The THISR options.

    Mapping system. The VMS-333 encodes multiple geo-referenced sensor metadata records into a single data stream and combines this metadata with photographic and video imagery. Data multiplexing capabilities are available for two different mission types–nadir and oblique ground observation missions.

    The nadir mission provides an automated process to create a seamless orthogonal geo-referenced photographic mosaic of the entire flight path that can be used to produce 3D terrain models of the ground below.

    The oblique mission provides the functionality to take at-will photographs of ground-based areas of interest from a handheld SLR camera, and geo-reference these photographs with the location of the ground target using coupled laser range finder technology.