The DataBird is a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) designed to
carry a payload and be launched via a weather-balloon. It comes with
payload brackets for most popular brands of radio-sonde
equipment. Alternatively, the general purpose payload can be tailored
to suit.
Features
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Light weight, robust pod with modular payload system
- Out-of-the-box and ready to launch in under 5 minutes, by a single operator
- Does not require a ground-station
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Can carry payloads up to 330 g (11 oz)
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Maximum altitude of approximately 35 km (115,000 ft)
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Normally lands within 100 metres (330 ft) from target location
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Smart 'on-the-fly' landing site selection
- Out-of-range release condition ensures it return
- Altitude and Timer programmable release conditions
- Allows for 39 alternative landing site
- Allows the user to create flight paths
- 5 channel sensor data logger
- Analog / digial interface to payload sensors
- Flight-path logging
- Event and diagnostics logging
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Configuration of no-fly-zones
Typical Applications
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Returning expensive or custom-made equipment
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Collection of large volumes of data, too much to be transmitted via radio. eg, aerial photography
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Reducing instrumentation setup and calibration costs,
- Enables increased atmospheric sampling on the same budget
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