Hood Tech Imaging Systems for UAVs Trump Munitions

Aug. 11, 2011 - PRLog -- Press Release
From:  Hood Tech Corp Vision, Inc., Hood River, Oregon
Date:  August 11, 2011
Subject:  Hood Tech Imaging Systems for UAVs Trump Munitions
Contact:  Lars Bergstrom, AltiCam Vision, 541-490-9099, lars@hoodtech.com


According to a recent article by John McHale in Military and Space Electronics,
(http://www.militaryaerospace.com/index/display/article-display/3712715968/articles/avionics-intelligence/features-and-analysis/2011/8/cots-and_commonality.htm)
while “flying drones take out enemy combatants with missiles and bombs, …their most valuable tool is the tactical information they gather that is downlinked to ground control stations, analyzed, then sent off to commanders in the field. In the early days of UAV programs, the excitement was centered on the aircraft itself, but today is all about the payload and the critical information it can provide to battlefield commanders long before ground troops are ever deployed.”
Hood Technology Corp. Vision, Inc. (Hood Tech) designs and manufactures imaging and video processing systems for small tactical UAVs.  More than 500,000 hours of combat use in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places demonstrate the reliability and utility of Hood Tech imaging products.
McHale goes on to quote Dennis Smith, vice president of engineering at Themis Computer in Fremont, Calif, “DOD UAV designers want more capability from their systems in terms of video processing, high-definition infrared imagery, storage, and image processing—and they want it to happen in the air before it is downlinked. This also means the ground control stations are adding more capability too...”
Hood Technology Corp. Vision, Inc. (Hood Tech) designs and manufactures imaging and video processing systems for manned and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), boats, land vehicles, and stationary mounts.  The reliability and utility of Hood Tech’s daylight and thermal imaging products has been demonstrated over more than 500,000 hours of operations in a variety of temperatures, humidity, dust, smoke, haze, and other environmental factors (http://www.alticamvision.com).
Hood Technology was founded by Dr. Andy von Flotow in Hood River, Oregon in 1993.  In addition to stabilized imaging systems, Hood Technology develops, tests, and manufactures launch and retrieval systems for a variety of UAVs and monitors blade vibrations in industrial turbines and jet engines, a diagnostic method for predicting possible future failures (www.hoodtech.com).

For further information, please contact Dr. Lars Bergstrom at Lars@hoodtech.com.

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Hood Technology Corp. Vision, Inc. (Hood Tech) designs and manufactures imaging and video processing systems for manned and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), boats, land vehicles, and stationary mounts.