General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI), a manufacturer of unmanned aircraft and surveillance and radar imaging systems based in Washington, has elected to arm the ground control station (GCS) of its Predator UAV with video exploitation capabilities.
To do so, GA-ASI entered into an agreement with Mediaware, maker of enhanced digital video capture and exploitation systems for the defense and broadcast sectors, located in Canberra, Australia.
GA-ASI has subcontracted Mediaware to help engineer, develop, and integrate video and data dissemination enhancements, including improved video and metadata capture and exploitation.
The Predator will take advantage of Mediaware’s software, which combines aircraft positional information and sensor video into a single Internet-compliant MPEG-2 digital video stream able to be exported from the GCS in real time. For more information, visit www.mediaware.com.
