An UAV for Civil Applications: IT180 & YellowScan® LIDAR
Friday, September 18 2015
The ECA Group UAV Research & Development team worked in cooperation with YellowScan® (l’Avion Jaune subsidiary) in order to integrate its LIDAR on ECA Group UAV IT180-5TH (gasoline version) for civil application such as industrial imagery mission.
The first flight was operated on a slightly cloudy day, with winds up to 30 km/h, beginning of September 2015 on ECA Group test field South of Paris area.
The result was in line with expectations and the system is released for production in various domains such as precision farming, forestry and mining. But also for industrial topographic missions such as power line inspection.
Other applications in the civil sector are planned for this unique system that combines the best of civil UAV vertical takeoff and landing and laser scanning system.