On November 25th a 3 years strategic agreement has been signed by CATUAV and AURENSIS for the distribution and exploitation of the CATUAV services. AURENSIS is a leading company in the Territorial Information Systems market with more than 140 professional staff at their headquarters in...
The TV program "El Medi Ambient" of TV3 (Catalan Television) emitted last week a report about the activities and technology of CATUAV. This report remarks the interest of the environmental companies in the use of CATUAV technology. We also want to thank all the people...
Once concluded the production, integration and on-ground calibration phases of the development of the multispectral camera PANOPTE, the ARGOS UAV take off the Moia testing runaway on October 19th 2008 to perform the first evaluation flight of the camera. It is embeded in a wing...
CATUAV has completed the development of the PANOPTE multispectral camera In a short time, CATUAV will dispose of a multispectral camera designed for the Argos UAV and oriented to environmental applications: PANOPTE.The development and integration phases finished last weeks and at present the on-ground calibration...
A mission has been carried in the Natural Interest zone of Carbassí in order to evaluate the extension of a plague in 62 Ha of a Pinus Nigra forest. The operation, with the cooperation of the Forestry Service of the Catalan Government, demonstrated that a...
The technical advances implemented in the Argos UAV have decreased the fuel consumption to 175 grams/hour with the standard cargo capacity. This will allow the new Argos Platform to fly during more than 14h, having a radial action field of 650 km....
The workshop, organised by CTAE, AER.CAT and BAIE, joined together the main public, private and university agents related with the UAV technologies. The market projections and the discussions that took place gave a full view of the UAV sector. From CATUAV we congratulate the organizers of the...
During June 28th, CATUAV carried out a reconnaissance mission of the vineyard damage produced by an intense hailstorm that affected Artés on Saturday, May 24th 2008. The grapevine hail damage will imply the vintage total loss for some wine producers. The damage extension was monitored...
The presentation of the UAV platforms and the imaging sensors developed by CATUAV was performed in the CTFC headquarters of Solsona (Barcelona) on June 27th. During the workshop, the multiple CATUAV forestry applications were discussed with the CTFC technicians. The advantages relative to the satellite...
During only 6 months, CATUAV has designed and built a new platform propelled by a thermal propulsion for large flight duration and payloads. The first ARGOS propotipe take off the Moia testing runway on June 20th at 8:42 to perform its first evaluation flight. During...