Data & Image Fusion for Multisensor UAV Payload

The recent spread of the use of Unmanned Air Vehicles UAVs for military purpose over the past two decades have led the industry to develop various payloads, matching the operational needs for the various missions committed to the UAV systems. In this context, SAGEM has positioned as a main actor in Europe in the field of UAV European leader for the tactical UAV systems SPERWER. Major sub-contractor for observation payloads dedicated to medium altitude long endurance UAV. Proposition of Over-the-Hill mini-UAV concepts in the frame of FELIN. This position has notably been acquired thanks to the long term know-how of SAGEM in several domains, particularly critical in the design of a UAV system European leader of optronic systems. European no. 1, World no. 3 for Inertial Navigation Systems. Expert in Global Positioning Systems, RF communication and Data Links. In the frame of these developments in the field of UAV systems, a study has been dedicated to the definition of new observation payloads, in order to anticipate the various needs for the future UAV systems. This study put a particular focus on the possible commonalties between the different payloads responding to the various needs, and on the synergies which could be obtained between the different subelements of the observation payload, and with the other payloads embedded on the UAV.