Optical communication with drones - DCAT
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Ongoing drone developments and widespread commercialization have made drones appealing unmanned aerial platforms, they are versatile at low cost The vast amount of functionalities that drones can foresee in makes them attractive (and eventually inadmissible) assets for military missions. Two key functionalities of drones for military missions are I) scouting of unknown territory or monitoring/securing large/difficult to observe areas, and II) creating a (high bandwidth) data relay infrastructure at e.g. the battlefield or in areas without data infrastructure. The name of this project is ‘Drone Communication Active Terminal’ DCAT and its goal is threefold validating the two above mentioned key functionalities through a use case, demonstrating new technology i.e. an omnidirectional synthetic aperture radar and small form factor optical communication terminal, both developed by TNO and supporting the Dutch industry in the development of essential peripheral technology required for rolling out this use case.
TNO Identifier
874783
Publisher
TNO
Source title
TNO Optical SATCOM Day, Delft, 7 November 2019
Collation
1 p.
Place of publication
Delft
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