Product Spotlight: C-Astral ATLAS

July 21, 2015 – C-Astral Aerospace has unveiled the most compact model in its professional UAV line-up, the ATLAS.

Standing for Advanced Technology Light Acquisition System, the ATLAS is also the company’s first ever hand-launch capable unit and joins the C-Astral Aerospace BRAMOR gEO and BRAMOR rTK in offering industry-leading precision and endurance.

The result of many years development work by C-Astral Aerospace, the new ATLAS offers multiple functionality in a safe, compact, light, hand-launched package.

While the ATLAS is supported by a new avionics and GCS guidance solution, the fixed-wing UAV’s operating software remains completely compatible with the current BRAMOR family ground segments.

“This new model represents yet another leap forward in terms of the accessibility of world leading UAV technology to an ever-evolving audience,” says Jeremy Neilson, UAV business development manager for C-Astral Aerospace distributor Synergy Positioning Systems.

“Being able to utilise a hand-launch capable system that only weighs a remarkable 2.3kg, yet can provide highly accurate mapping further establishes UAV technology as the proven tool of choice for cost-effective data capture across multiple industries.”

C-Astral Aerospace says the ATLAS features class-leading endurance capabilities and a new degree of modularity that enables quick reconfigurations between an array of modular sensors, ranging from visible light, infra red, multispectral and hyperspectral, or even custom detectors.

High resolution, high accuracy geo-referenced orthophotography and Digital Surface Models have become increasingly accessible and usable data sets for a wide variety of purposes, from road construction monitoring, to helping calculate quarry stockpile volumes within the extractive industry, agricultural and environmental management scenarios such as flood or erosion monitoring, forest plantation surveys and wildfire management, or even emergency planning and search and rescue operations.

More information about the C-Astral Atlas can be found here.