Wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) sensor helps Blackjack unmanned aircraft monitor a city-size area at once
Used together, WAMI and full-motion video enable operators to monitor what’s happening closely on the ground and zoom in on areas of interest.
Aug 21st, 2020
Blackjjack 21 Aug 2020
WASHINGTON – A new wide-area motion imagery sensor could make the RQ-21A Blackjack an even more powerful tool for the war fighter, allowing the small UAV to simultaneously monitor five square miles. C4ISRnet reports. Continue reading original article
The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
21 Aug. 2020 -- Officials of Logos Technologies LLC in Fairfax, Va. announced last month that their company won a $6.7 million contract to deliver two wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) sensor prototypes to U.S. Naval Air Systems Command. Dubbed Cardcounter by the Navy, the 28-pound infrared sensor is adapted from the company’s commercial BlackKite product.
https://www.militaryaerospace.com/sensors/article/14182010/widearea-motion-imagery-wami-sensor-unmanned
