A Cedip Infrared Systems company known as Polytech recently announced to have come up with its latest inertial navigation system (INS), which has specially been brought about for operating with its Cobolt multi sensor gimbals in airborne surveillance, search & rescue and law enforcement applications. PolyTech’s latest low-priced INS kit, consisting of a gyro pack, 3-axis accelerometer and right digital filtering, is deployed easily into an optical bench, thus getting rid of the errors because of flexible mounting on the aircraft fuselage.
For geo referencing and geo mapping with moving maps it is necessary to accurately define the optical line of sight. A simple GPS reference is not enough to achieve the pointing accuracy required in critical applications such as fire mapping, law enforcement or search and rescue.
The INS system, while integrating an external GPS, boasts of providing full attitude and heading of the optical bench. With the help of the INS, a user is enabled to take on target geo-location and geo-pointing operations through the flight, so ensuring the exact latitude and longitude of the ground observed area. The INS output can with no trouble be integrated with many a moving maps and terrain models.
