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...
The new VEGCAM-1 camera has been flight tested. It is a camera designed for the ATMOS-3 to analyze natural and agricultural vegetation. By default it works in three wide spectral bands: near infrared, red and green, compatible with SPOT. Depending on the flight altitude, it...
The new ATMOS-5 platform is ready to begin the flight evaluation program. We hope to complete a total of 25 flight hours before installing the automatic pilot and photographic cameras....
CATUAV has successfully completed a night flight program that allowed the testing of a new landing system without visibility and the application of different improvements to the ATMOS-3 UAV platform. In a total of 8 flights, 12 h of nocturnal flight were accumulate...
CATUAV S.L. is created to give the activities related to UAVs, which have taken place within Aeroplans Blaus S.L. since 2000, their own independent existence. The main reason is to separate two different activities: the import and selling of equipment and systems for sport aircraft,...