Flight Landata's BuckEye Helps to Locate IEDs in Iraq

Flight Landata, Inc. (MA, USA), a remote sensing firm, is awarded US$ 10 million contract providing ERDC/TEC with authority to purchase up to US$ 10 million of Flight Landata's camera systems over the next 5 years.

This camera systems will assist the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's (ERDC) Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) with the development of technology that has proven to be of significant value detecting IEDs - Improvised Explosive Devices, and suspected insurgent activities in both urban and rural areas. The BuckEye system has recently been deployed in Iraq where soldiers have been using it to produce outstanding situational awareness under the most difficult conditions.

The BuckEye is the next generation of Flight Landata's patented remote sensing digital camera system technology. It incorporates the latest in digital cameras with GPS, inertial measurement units, CPU and software to produce a lightweight, highly portable camera system. The BuckEye system produces very high-resolution imagery that can be used to rapidly produce digital orthophoto mosaics in the field. The system is platform independent having been used on both fixed wing and rotary aircraft. Due to its ultracompact design and lightweight it is ideally suited for use in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).