The Warden
Hyperspectral Optical Radar
The Warden
Hyperspectral Optical Radar

Autonomous, real-time, wide-area, optical & hyperspectral search sensor optimized for Integrator UAS

The world’s first real-time, area scan, hyperspectral sensor that provides complete domain awareness in all conditions and environments, both day and night. Artificial Intelligence operating on the edge autonomously detects, recognizes, locates and tracks all objects, providing on-demand situational awareness.

Wide-Area Detect & Classify

Operates in land, riverine, estuarine, littoral, coastal and open-ocean environments.

AI Operating on the Edge

Real-time detection, recognition and tracking of all objects using onboard AI orchestration and data fusion engine, even through obscurants and whitecaps.

Autonomous Tracking

Completely autonomous spectral signature target identification – no need to process target data for false positives

Specifications

Size/Weight/Power
  • Size: 189 x 189 x 286 mm
  • Weight: 4.3 kg
  • Power (nominal): 110 W
  • Operating Temperature:
  • -20C to 45C
Missions
  • Wide-area ISR/search
  • Maritime domain awareness
  • Counter narcotics
  • Border security
  • ISR in contested environments
  • Fisheries monitoring
  • Search and rescue


Versatile Feature Set

• Completely autonomous spectral signature target identification—no need to process target data for false positives

• Operates in land, riverine, estuarine, littoral, coastal and open-ocean environments

• Exceptional performance in a variety of degraded visual conditions including haze, smoke, dust, snow/sand storms, high humidity, and day-to-night

• Domain agnostic—no configuration change required when switching environments

Target Detection

• Significantly greater search area coverage and range to target compared with alternatives.

• Scan-to-scan target tracking and re-identification

Interoperable C2

• Fully integrated into INEXA Control software. Also available with Arkeus user interface.

Developed and produced by Arkeus.

Integrated and tested in collaboration between Insitu and Arkeus.

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ScanEagle
ScanEagle

The UAS that invented the agile ISR category

Offering VTOL, SATCOM, and advancing resilience capabilities

With over 1.6 million combat flight hours, ScanEagle is the industry’s most trusted long-endurance UAS. Electronic resilience features, SATCOM, VTOL, AI-enabled payloads, and the same best-in class endurance make today’s updated ScanEagle ready for the battlespace of tomorrow.

Long-Endurance

ScanEagle’s 18+ hours of endurance carrying 17 lbs of Insitu best-in-class payloads means you’ll never lose sight of what’s most important. PLEO SATCOM enables enhanced over-the-horizon ops.

Launch Anywhere

ScanEagle is available with both traditional rail launch/Skyhook and FLARES Vertical Take-off and Landing kit. VTOL requires minimal deck space and zero aircraft modifications. Ready to launch within 30 minutes with only 2 operators.

Resilient Autonomy

ScanEagle has been operating in GPS-contested and denied environments since 2018. Alt-nav, resilient datalinks, and other advanced resilience features onboard.

ScanEagle Specifications

Size and Weight
  • Max takeoff weight: 62 lb / 28 kg
  • Max payload weight: 17 lb / 8 kg
  • Payload power: up to 150 W
  • Length: 5.6ft / 1.71m
  • Wingspan: 10.2 ft / 3.1 m
Performance
  • Endurance: 18 hours
  • Ceiling: 19,500 ft / 5,950 m
  • Max horizontal speed: 80 knots / 41.2 m/s
  • Engine: Heavy fuel (JP-5 or JP 8) or C-10 gasoline engine
SATCOM C2
  • Proliferated Low-Earth Orbit Constellations SATCOM available
Sensor and Data Options
  • Electro-optical (EO) camera and telescope
  • Medium-wave infrared and EO for day-to-night operations
  • AI-assisted wide-area maritime search
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR): MMTI/GMTI, CCD
  • Laser range finder, laser pointer, and laser designator options
  • Electronic warfare / SIGINT / comms relay
  • AIS: Maritime vessel identification
  • Visual-Based Navigation
  • Detect and Advise
  • Video Datalink: Analog, digital encrypted
  • C2 Datalink: Encrypted, unencrypted

FLARES Specifications

Weight
  • Max ScanEagle weight 62 lb (28 kg)
Temperature Range
  • -20º to +45º C
Wind Range
  • 0-30 knots
  • 10 knot gusts
Full Mission Set Packout
  • 463L pallet: 108 x 88 x 62 in
    (2.74 x 2.24 x 1.57 m)

How does ScanEagle with VTOL work?

LAUNCH

FLARES mated with ScanEagle climbs vertically to altitude (500′ AGL), dashes into the wind, and releases ScanEagle into fixed-wing flight (<5 minutes).

  • FLARES returns to land/ship launch point
  • In case of an aborted launch, FLARES returns and lands vertically with ScanEagle still attached.
RECOVERY

FLARES takes off vertically tethered, hosting capture rope into the air (~300′). ScanEagle catches on vertical line via wing hook (<5 min)

  • FLARES descends as the capture rope is wheeled onto the winch in MARS (Mast Augmented Recovery System) and ScanEagle settles onto the top of the mast.
  • Unloaded FLARES lands.

Ready for Battle Management Systems

ScanEagle’s open architecture enables rapid integration with third‑party mission and battle‑management systems. Onboard autonomy includes automatic target recognition trained on decades of computer vision expertise, detect and advise, and other capabilities designed for one-to-many UAS operations.

Resilient in the Harshest Environments

ScanEagle delivers next-generation survivability for today’s and tomorrow’s contested, denied, and degraded airspace with autonomous and visual navigation, GPS-jam resilient guidance, adaptive RF switching, weather avoidance, and automated airspace safety (including DAA).

Game-Changing Range, Endurance, and Capacity

ScanEagle delivers 18+ hours of endurance, 17 lb payload capacity, and over-the-horizon SATCOM for persistent detection, classification, tracking, and targeting. Its VTOL kit enables expeditionary operations without sacrificing range, payload capacity, or power.

Flexible Operations From Front Lines or Rear Positions

ScanEagle’s endurance, range, and flexible launch/recovery enable operations from almost anywhere. The FLARES VTOL kit supports expeditionary ops with a small packout, set up and launched in 30 minutes by two operators. Rail launcher and Skyhook deliver runway‑independent ops from forward or established sites – no aircraft modifications required.

Ultimate VTOL Portability and Self-Sufficiency

FLARES VTOL kit enables rapid repositioning and tight‑space ops on land or at sea. Its small, transportable footprint supports island‑hopping, ship‑to‑shore, and other point‑to‑point missions, and it’s available to current ScanEagle users with no aircraft modifications.

Optimized for Challenging Shipboard Operation

Born from decades of maritime ops, ScanEagle with the FLARES VTOL kit is hardened for heavy seas, high winds, and tight shipboard spaces, launching from small‑vessel helicopter decks even in high pitch and roll.

Truly Interoperable with Common Ground Control Station

Insitu’s compact, modular cGCS minimizes footprint and maximizes interoperability. Configurable for vehicle, land, or shipboard use, it supports SATCOM, LOS control, and non‑Insitu UxVs.

Trusted Performance

With 1.5M+ combat operational hours and continuous land and maritime deployments since 2004, ScanEagle is battle‑proven with U.S. and international forces in harsh, contested environments.

Ready for Joint Operations

Compliant with relevant NATO and industry standards to allow interoperability across joint, coalition, and allied forces.

Payload Flexibility

Field-swappable payloads can be rapidly reconfigured to support a wide range of missions—electronic warfare, ISR, comms relay, overwatch and targeting.

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Integrator
Integrator

One aircraft, infinite possibilities

The Integrator is the most versatile UAS in its class, with a modular design to fit every mission. Endless configuration options include no-sacrifice VTOL and extended-range SATCOM capabilities.

Group 4/5 Capability

Fly multi-int, multi-domain missions that challenge Group 4/5 asset capabilities at a fraction of the acquisition and operation costs with up to 27.5-hour endurance, up to 2000 nmi range, and up to 50lb of payloads across 10 bays.

Small Footprint

Available with traditional rail launcher/Skyhook LRE and FLARES Vertical Take-off and Landing kit, which requires minimal deck space, can launch in high seas and gusty winds, and requires zero aircraft modifications.

Resilient Autonomy

Next-gen resilience features include visual-based navigation, autonomous RF switching, weatherization and more, ensuring mission success even in contested, denied, or degraded environments.

Integrator Specifications

Size and Weight
  • Length: 8.2 ft / 2.5m
  • Wingspan: 16 ft / 4.9 m
  • Max takeoff weight: 175 lb / 79 kg
  • Max payload weight: 50 lb / 23 kg
Performance
  • Endurance: up to 27.5 hours
  • Ceiling: 19,500 ft / 5,944 m
  • Max horizontal speed: 90+ knots / 46 m/s
  • Engine: EFI using JP-5/JP-8 fuel
Payload Integration
  • Onboard power: 500 W for payloads
  • Onboard connectivity: Ethernet
  • Rapid integration of other customer-specific payloads available 
SATCOM C2 Options
  • Proliferated Low-Earth Orbit Constellations
  • Geosynchronous Orbit Satellite Control
Sensor Options
  • AC14 EO telescope (high-zoom day FMV)
  • Hyper-Spectral Optical Radar
  • Dual Imager (MWIR/EO – day & night FMV)
  • PT-6 AI-assisted maritime surface search
  • NSP-5 SAR/MTI/CCD multi-int tactical radar
  • WAMI Wide-area motion imagery for day (Redkite) and night (Blackkite)
  • CM234: Multi-Spectral, EO & Targeting
  • EOIR-5/Alticam 14 Laser designator/pointer/rangefinder
  • PICOSAR: Synthetic Aperture Radar / GMTI
  • MRaISR Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • HiPointer: Solid-State Radar
  • Detect and Advise
  • Alternative Navigation (Alt-Nav) including Visual-Based Navigation (VBN)
  • Kinetics
  • SIGINT, EW, comms relay, and more

FLARES VTOL Kit Specifications

Weight
  • Max Integrator weight 175 lb (79kg)
Temperature Range
  • -20º to +45º C
Wind Range
  • 0-30 knots
  • 10 knot gusts
Deck Motion
  • +/- 10 degrees roll
  • +/- 5 degrees pitch
Resilience Features
  • Encrypted GPS
  • Jam-resistant datalinks
  • Navigation solutions for GNSS-contested environments
  • Weatherization for extreme conditions
Full Mission Set Packout
  • 463L pallet: 108 x 88 x 62 in
    (2.74 x 2.24 x 1.57 m)

How does Integrator with VTOL work?

LAUNCH

FLARES, mated with Integrator, climbs vertically to altitude (500′ AGL), dashes into the wind, and releases Integrator into fixed-wing flight.

  • FLARES returns to land/ship via GPS
  • In case of an aborted launch, FLARES returns and lands vertically with Integrator still attached.
RECOVERY

FLARES takes off vertically tethered, hosting capture rope into the air (~300′). Integrator catches on vertical line via wing hook (<5 min)

  • FLARES descends as the capture rope is wheeled onto the winch in MARS (Mast Augmented Recovery System) and Integrator settles onto the top of the mast.
  • Unloaded FLARES lands on deck.

Resilient in the Harshest Environments

Integrator UAS offers next-gen survivability that’s critical to today’s (and tomorrow’s) battlespace. This includes autonomous navigation, GNSS/GPS jamming resilience, visual-based navigation, autonomous RF-switching, weather avoidance, and automated airspace safety features (including DAA) to ensure mission success even in contested, denied, or degraded environments.

Game-Changing Range, Endurance, and Capacity

Integrator offers up to 27.5 hours of endurance and 2,000 nmi range. Range and endurance enable persistent detection, classification, tracking, and targeting. This range/endurance paired with Integrator’s large payload capacity enables long-transit, long-dwell ISR+T and multi-intelligence missions normally reserved for larger, more expensive assets.

Flexible Operations From Front Lines or Rear Positions

With Integrator’s endurance, range, and flexible launch/recovery options, you can operate from just about anywhere. FLARES VTOL launch kit enables truly expeditionary ops, with a small packout that can be set up and launched in 30 mins with 3 operators. Traditional LRE (rail launcher and Skyhook) offer runway-independent operations from forward operating bases or other more established positions. The choice is yours – with no aircraft modifications required for either option.

Ultimate VTOL Portability and Self-Sufficiency

FLARES VTOL Kit enables rapid repositioning and operation in tight spaces on land or ship. It is easily transportable downrange for island-hopping, ship-to-shore, and other point-to-point operations.

Optimized for Challenging Shipboard Operation

Integrator is proven in challenging maritime environments around the globe. FLARES VTOL Kit is environmentally hardened and built to operate in heavy seas and high winds, with limited launch and stowage spaces in mind. Launches from small vessel helicopter decks in high pitch and roll environments.

Truly Interoperable with Common Ground Control Station

Insitu’s small, modular, and expandable cGCS with multiple configurations minimizes footprint and maximizes compatibility. Ideal for vehicle-mounted, land-based, or shipboard operations, cGCS works with SATCOM and line-of-sight control and also controls non-Insitu UxV.

Trusted Performance

Integrator has been truly battle-tested and deployed around the globe, flying in the harshest environments for a variety of US and international partners.

Interoperability

Compliant with relevant NATO and industry standards to allow interoperability across joint, coalition, and allied forces.

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Alticam 06
Alticam 06

Laser Designator Targeting for ScanEagle UAS

Electro-optical and multi-spectral ISR turret and superior laser designation targeting capabilities
now available for battle-tested and maritime-proven ScanEagle UAS

Multi-Imager, Multi-Feed

Never lose sight of a target while simultaneously maintaining situational awareness.

Superior Targeting Support

Precise geo-spatial targeting via laser rangefinder, laser pointer,
laser spot-tracker, and laser designator options.

Flexibility by Design

Multiple variants available, enabling customers to tailor capabilities to their specific needs.

Get the full specs and details.

Specifications

AI-Assisted Capabilities

• Video motion target indicators
(VMTI)

• Embedded video processing

• Image stabilization

• Target tracking

Capability Options Available

• HD Electro-Optic (EO)

• Mid-wave infrared (MWIR)

• Short-wave infrared (SWIR)

• Long-wave infrared (LWIR)

• Continuous zoom telescope optics

• Laser rangefinder

• Laser pointer

• Laser spot tracker

• Laser designator (STANAG compliant)

AI-Assisted Features

Decrease operator workload and increase success rates with automated features such as video motion target indicators (VMTI), embedded video processing, image stabilization, and target tracking .

ISR + Targeting

High-resolution optics and multi-image, multi-feed video signals allows for advanced intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance with laser targeting support.

Multi-spectral

A variety of multi-spectral variants available. Short-wave infrared (SWIR) telescope option adds the ability to see through smoke, fog and haze at an extended range.

Laser designation

Adds STANAG-3733-compliant laser designator and pointer for advanced targeting support.

Multiple Variants Available

Designed for ultimate flexibility, customers can choose from a variety of multi-spectral and EO optics with desired laser targeting options.

Additional benefits

  • 4-Axis image stabilization
  • Two simultaneous H.264 or H.265 compressed video streams
  • High-definition imagers
  • Digital video output
  • MISB-compliant metadata streams

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NSP-3
Tactical Multi-INT Radar for ScanEagle
NSP-3
Tactical Multi-INT Radar for ScanEagle

Delivering real-time, actionable intelligence
in day, night and all-weather conditions

Enabling multi-INT, all-weather ISR capabilities normally found on larger, more expensive platforms.

SAR/MTI/CCD Radar Data

Advanced, low-SWaP, multi-mode radar in a protected weatherized pod.

Coherent Change Detection

CCD helps discover surface disturbances more effectively than EO or IR alone.

Wide-area search modes

Ideal for maritime patrol, force protection and counter-trafficking missions.

Get the full specs and details.

Specifications

Operational Ranges
  • Operating Frequency: Ku band
  • Operating Altitude: Mode dependent up to 6,000 ft AGL
  • SAR imaging range: 14.2 km (at 1m resolution)
  • MTI (vehicle): 6 km max. range; max. continuous coverage 16 km2
Standard Data Formats
  • KML, Complex NITF
  • JPG, PNG, BMP
  • STANAG 4607 Detects, STANAG 4676 Tracks
Variants
  • NSP-3(X): SAR, CCD, GMTI/MMTI (advanced), DMTI
  • NSP-3(S): SAR, GMTI/MMTI (standard)
  • X variant available to approved customers
Operating Software
  • Uses “Lisa 3D” intuitive software for Command and Control (C2) and Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED)
  • Pre-mission flight geometry based on data collection plan
  • Operational capability to program the radar, dynamically change plans and modes, and perform real-time analysis
  • Post-mission analysis with export to standard formats and data forensics

All-weather, high-quality, multi-mode radar

• Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

• Moving Target Indicator (MTI)

• Coherent Change Detection (CCD)

Multiple radar search modes

• Stripmap – Monitors a swath of ground parallel to the direction of flight.

• Spot light – Monitors a selected area of ground while UAS flies past or around it.

• Wide Area – Monitors the large area within the radar’s FoV for potential targets of interest.

Wide-area search modes

• Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI)

• Dismount Moving Target Indicator (DMTI)

• Maritime Moving Target Indicator (MMTI)

• High Value Target (HVT) mode

Developed and produced by IMSAR. Integrated and tested in collaboration between Insitu and IMSAR.

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ScanEagle VTOL
ScanEagle VTOL

The UAS that invented the agile ISR category,
Now with VTOL

ScanEagle paired with FLARES VTOL brings the smallest possible operational footprint
while preserving maximum endurance and best-in-class, modular, payload capability.

Long-Endurance

ScanEagle’s 18+ hours of endurance carrying 17 lbs of Insitu best-in-class payloads means you’ll never lose sight of what’s most important.

Small Footprint

FLARES Vertical Take-off and Landing kit requires minimal deck or land space and requires zero aircraft modifications. Enables rapid repositioning and operation in tight spaces. Transportable via standard pickup truck or cargo van and ready to launch within 30 minutes.

Resilient

ScanEagle has been operating in GPS-contested and denied environments since 2018. Alt-nav and other solutions available.

Get the full specs and details.

FLARES Specifications

Weight
  • Max ScanEagle weight 62 lb (28 kg)
Temperature Range
  • -20º to +45º C
Wind Range
  • 0-30 knots
  • 10 knot gusts
Full Mission Set Packout
  • 463L pallet: 108 x 88 x 62 in
    (2.74 x 2.24 x 1.57 m)

ScanEagle Specifications

Size and Weight
  • Max takeoff weight: 62 lb / 28 kg
  • Max payload weight: 17 lb / 8 kg
  • Payload power: up to 150 W
  • Length: 5.6ft / 1.71m
  • Wingspan: 10.2 ft / 3.1 m
Sensor and Data Options
  • Electro-optical (EO) camera and telescope
  • Medium-wave infrared and EO for day-to-night operations
  • AI-assisted wide-area maritime search
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR): MMTI/GMTI, CCD
  • Laser range finder, laser pointer, and laser designator options
  • Electronic warfare / SIGINT / comms relay
  • AIS: Maritime vessel identification
  • Alternative Navigation (Alt-Nav)
  • Video Datalink: Analog, digital encrypted
  • C2 Datalink: Encrypted, unencrypted
Performance
  • Endurance: 18 hours
  • Ceiling: 19,500 ft / 5,950 m
  • Max horizontal speed: 80 knots / 41.2 m/s
  • Engine: Heavy fuel (JP-5 or JP 8) or C-10 gasoline engine

How does ScanEagle with VTOL work?

LAUNCH

FLARES mated with ScanEagle climbs vertically to altitude (500′ AGL), dashes into the wind, and releases ScanEagle into fixed-wing flight (<5 minutes).

  • FLARES returns to land/ship launch point
  • In case of an aborted launch, FLARES returns and lands vertically with ScanEagle still attached.
RECOVERY

FLARES takes off vertically tethered, hosting capture rope into the air (~300′). ScanEagle catches on vertical line via wing hook (<5 min)

  • FLARES descends as the capture rope is wheeled onto the winch in MARS (Mast Augmented Recovery System) and ScanEagle settles onto the top of the mast.
  • Unloaded FLARES lands.

Full Range, Endurance, and Capacity

ScanEagle with VTOL offers 18+ hours of endurance carrying 17 lb of Insitu’s best-in-class modular payloads. Range and endurance enable persistent detection, classification, and tracking.

Increased Portability and Self-Sufficiency

ScanEagle with VTOL enables rapid repositioning and operation in tight spaces on land or ship.

Available for Current ScanEagle Customers

FLARES VTOL kit works with existing ScanEagle UAS.

Common Ground Control Station

Small, modular, and expandable GCS with multiple configurations minimizes footprint and maximizes compatibility. Also controls non-Insitu UAV.

Trusted Performance

With over 1.3 million operational hours, ScanEagle has been continuously deployed on land since 2004 and at sea since 2005. ScanEagle is truly battle-tested – deployed around the globe, flying in the harshest environments for a variety of US and international partners.

Interoperability

Compliant with relevant NATO and industry standards to allow interoperability across joint, coalition, and allied forces.

Payload Flexibility

Field-swappable payloads can be rapidly reconfigured to support a wide range of missions—electronic warfare, ISR, comms relay, overwatch and targeting.

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PT-6
Wide Area Search
PT-6
Wide Area Search

Automated Maritime Wide-Area Search for Integrator

AI-assisted wide-area search with high-powered zoom optics and multiple spectral bands.
Search, interrogate, and prosecute from one long endurance platform.

Automate Your Search

Scans wide areas for objects of interest, processes imagery on the edge, and provides real-time information to operators, networked payloads, or mission management systems.

Program Your Missions

Designate automated search areas and detection thresholds based on mission parameters to optimize sensor and software operation.

Search from Day to Night

Equipped with HD RGB and HD LWIR sensors. Nighttime heat/object detections, particularly in maritime environments, are aided by the contrast of thermal signatures against a uniform body of water.

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Specifications

Payload Swap
  • Weight: 5.5 lb (2.5 kg)
  • Size: 23.6 in x 3.75 in (95 mm x 600 mm) 
  • Power: 42 W 
Mounting
  • Standard CG bay mounting 
Onboard Sensors
  • Sensor 1: RGB Color 
    • 12.3 MP (4096 x 3000)
    • Rolling shutter
  • Sensor 2: HD LWIR
    • 1.3 MP (1280 x 1024)
    • 8-14 micron
Command Control
  • Ethernet
User Interface
  • Browser-based, hosted on payload
GPS INS
  • Novatel survey-grade GPS
  • Single L1 antenna
Stabilization
  • Active roll
How it works

PT-6 scans wide areas for objects of interest, processes imagery on the edge, and provides real-time information to operators, networked payloads, or mission management systems.

Detection Ranges and Coverage

Examples of targets and coverage based on size, altitude and speed (assumes 55 kts)

Target SizeAltitude (AGL)Detection RangeSearch SwathCoverage Rate (per hour)
2 m life raft1,000 ft (305m)2 NM (3.7km)4 NM (7km)220 NM2 (755 km2)
19 m vessel5,000 ft (1,500m)10 NM (18.5km)20 NM (37km)1,100 NM2 (3,773 km2)
50+ m vessel5,000 ft (1,500m)17 NM (31.5km)34 NM (63km)1,870 NM2 (6,414 km2)

Let AI Do the Heavy Lifting

PT-6 automates the labor-intensive role of searching for small targets of interest in large areas, often in challenging conditions. Overwatch AI software automatically controls sensor operation to continually scan a search area; processes data in real-time on the edge; and notifies the operator or networked payload with geolocated image data of detected objects that warrant further review.

Expand Your Field of View

The sensor automatically scans in a step-stare pattern that sweeps across the flight track to provide a significantly increased search coverage area.

Go Day to Night with Multi-spectral Sensors

RGB and Long Wave Infrared (LWIR) allow you to search from day to night, and easily pick out warm heat signatures against a cool, uniform body of water.

Do it All with Multi-Mission Capabilities

PT-6 enables a wide variety of mission capabilities, from maritime search and ISR to land-based tactical intelligence, inspection and mapping, custom object detection, change detection, and more.

Stay On Target Longer with Unmatched Endurance

Integrator is designed for easy integration of multi-INT payloads, offers 24+ hours of endurance, and carries 40 pounds of Insitu best-in-class, modular, field-swappable payloads across six bays, with plenty of onboard power.

PT-6 is developed and produced by
Overwatch Imaging and integrated and tested
with Integrator in collaboration between
Insitu and Overwatch Imaging

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Tungsten
Tungsten

Software Development Kit

Building blocks for powerful still and motion imagery media applications

Designed for developers

Offers an extensive C++ API to operate on media from a range of sources including cameras, network streams, archives, and more.

Versatile architecture

Ideal for systems that require the capability to ingest, process, and deliver a large number of streams of video, audio, metadata, and annotation with minimal latency.

Adaptable, layered capabilities

Encoding and decoding, recording and playback, and advanced content-based retrieval and analysis via simultaneous media sources across many platforms.

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Unleash the full potential of your digital media

  • Build client-side, metadata-rich media consumption and server software 
  • Digitally encode motion imagery and metadata to MISB standards using encoding libraries and MainConcept codecs – no need for specialized video encoding software
  • Decode digital motion imagery and metadata for use directly in your software 
  • Make your solution MISB and STANAG compliant with core components including MISB metadata set libraries, Cursor-on-Target encoders/decoders, NITF libraries, and video codecs (view the MISB standards here)

The de facto ISR industry standard for motion imagery interoperability

  • Ideal for companies and platforms that demand flexible, superior, real-time digital media solutions
  • Contains a comprehensive bundle of sample applications including a full-featured media client and server, remote server management application, and media streaming application
  • Currently used in numerous cross-domain solutions to meet NSA Raise The Bar requirements
  • Available with get-you-started technical support and support cases
  • ITAR-free (EAR99)

Specifications

Encoding and Decoding

Video

  • HEVC/H.265 
  • AVC/H.264 
  • MPEG-4/H.263 
  • MPEG-2/H.262

Audio

  • MPEG-1/2 (MP3) 
  • AAC 

Metadata

  • KLV (SMPTE 336M-2001) 
  • Cursor on Target (CoT) 

Stream Formats

  • MPEG-2 Transport Stream 
  • MPEG-2 Program Stream 
Interoperability
  • Motion Imagery Standards Profile (MISP) 
  • STANAG 4609 
  • Cross Platform Support 
  • Customizable Interfaces 
GIS Utilities
  • Digital Elevation Models—DTED / SRTM / GTOPO30 
  • Four Corners Calculations 
  • Coordinate System and Height Conversions 
  • Geometric Types – WKT/WKB 
Media Transport
  • TCP 
  • UDP – Unicast / Multicast 
  • RTP / RTSP 
  • File 
  • Sliced File 
  • Archives 
  • JPIP 
  • Surge Media Acquisition Framework 
  • IPv6 
Metadata
  • MISB ST 0601 – UAS Datalink Metadata 
  • MISB ST 0102 – Security Metadata 
  • MISB ST 1107 – Geopositioning Metadata 
  • MISB EG 0104 – Predator Metadata 
  • Predator ESD 
  • MISB ST 0603/0604 – Synchronous Metadata 
  • MISB ST 0902 – Minimum Metadata Set 
  • MISB ST 1204 – Core Identifier 
  • MISB ST 0806 – RVT Data 
  • MISB ST 0602 – Annotation Metadata 
  • MISB ST 0808 – Ancillary Text Metadata 
  • MISB ST 0903 – VMTI Data 
  • MISB ST 1202 – Generalized Transformation 
  • MISB ST 1010 – Std Dev Corr Coef Matrix 
  • MISB EG 0801 – Photogrammetry Metadata 
  • MISB RP 0608 – Motion Imagery Identifier 
Image Formats
  • NITF (MIL-STD-2500C) 
  • NSIF (STANAG 4545) 
  • Bitmap 
  • JPEG 
  • JPEG 2000 
  • PNG 
  • TIFF 
  • RGB / Monochrome / YUV 
Video Display
  • DirectX 
  • OpenGL 
  • Video Overlays 
Programming Languages
  • C++ 
  • Java via the JNI 
  • C# via the CLI 
Architectures
  • Windows – x86/x64 – Visual Studio 
  • Linux – x86/x64 – GCC 
  • ARM – AArch64 – GCC 
DEVELOPER RESOURCES 
  • Extensive API Documentation 
  • Technical Support and Support Case Options 
SAMPLE APPLICATIONS – FULL SOURCE 
  • Media Client / Player 
  • Media Server 
  • Media Transcoding 
  • Media Streamer 

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Wide-Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) for Integrator

RedKite® Block II is a small electro-optical system capable of monitoring a city-sized area in real time.
BlackKite® takes your city-wide search from day to night using Mid-Wave Infrared (MWIR).

Enables wide-area monitoring

Monitors 10 mi² (16 km²) area within line-of-sight range of the GCS

Onboard data storage

RedKite offers up to 8 hours of mission data (11 hours for BlackKite) onboard vehicle supporting real-time or historical data

Real-time alerts

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RedKite Specifications

Operational altitude: 5,000-15,000 ft / 1,500-4,500 m AGL

Area of coverage at 5000 ft / 1,500m AGL: 1.3 NM² / 4.5 km² (2.4 km diameter)

Area of coverage at 12,000 ft / 4000m AGL: 5 NM² / 16 km² (4.5 km diameter)

GSD at 12,000 ft / 4,000 m AGL: 12 inches / .3 m

Camera: Monochrome CMOS (250 megapixel)

Refresh rate: 1 Hz

Cross-cueing: Yes

Viewer windows: Up to 10 unique streaming video windows

GCS archive length: 100 hrs, expandable

Onboard archive length: >4 hrs, expandable to 8 hrs

Transmission to mobile devices: Yes

Compact embedded processing: includes north-up rendering, real-time and DVR streaming, and full-mission storage

Data link: Internal data link, providing a fully integrated, single LRU

BlackKite Specifications

Operational altitude: 5,000-15,000 ft / 1,500-4,500 m AGL

Area of coverage at 5000 ft / 1,500m AGL: .5 NM² / 1.7 km² (1.5 km diameter)

Area of coverage at 12,000 ft / 4000m AGL: 3.5 NM² / 12 km² (4 km diameter)

Ground Sample Distance (GSD) at 5,000 ft / 1,500 m AGL: 8.5 inches / .22 m

GSD at 12,000 ft / 4,000 m AGL: 23 inches / .6 m

Camera: 3 Mpx

Refresh rate: 1 Hz

Cross-cueing: Yes

Viewer windows: Multiple unique streaming video windows

GCS/SCS archive length: 160 hrs, expandable

Onboard archive length: 5 hrs (4 TB drive), ~11 hrs (8 TB drive)

Transmission to mobile devices: Yes

Compact embedded processing: North-up rendering, real-time and DVR streaming, and full-mission storage

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Cross cue

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Support multiple operators

Support multiple sensor operators with up to 10 video streams at once, each viewing independent streams. Geospatial and temporal bookmarking allows users to mark and share locations.

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Simultaneous target detection

Detect, track, and label geographically dispersed still or moving targets.

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