According to Defense Systems staff, the amount of money spent on payloads and subsystems used on UAVs will increase and reach $ 2.9 billion in the year 2011.
EO1000 Infrared vision camera
This figure has been quoted based on the recent report submitted by Visiongain, titled ‘The UAV Payload and SubSystems Market 2011-2012’. The report has discussed various strategies adopted by companies in meeting the demand for advanced imaging systems that will be used by UAVs.
Hood Technology Vision is one of the top companies that supply imaging systems for small UAVs. They have been providing imaging technologies since 1993. They have been successful in acquiring the highest quality level in imaging systems, which is the National Imagery Interpretability Rating Scale 9 (NIIRS-9). The company designs and produces video processing and imaging systems for unmanned and manned aerial vehicles, land vehicles, boats and stationary mounts.The consistency and benefits of Hood Tech’s thermal imaging and daylight devices has been proved for over 500,000 operation hours in a range of humidity, temperature, smoke, haze, dust and other environmental parameters.
Hood Technology designs, tests and produces retrieval and launch systems for a range of UAVs and controls blade deflection in jet engines and industrial turbines, which is a diagnostic technique for expecting future failures.
Source: http://www.hoodtech.com/