Navitrak currently offers digital moving map software deployed primarily in fixed wing and rotary aircraft, and controls gimbal-stabilized day/night infrared cameras which display the line-of-sight intercept of the camera image as an accurate footprint overlay on the digital moving map.
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s (ACOA) support will enable Navitrak to develop hardware to host the data acquisition, camera control, and image processing activities independent of the mapping software engine, which is expected to enhance the system’s performance by improving data acquisition and sensor control. Intelligence will also be added to the system through data fusion and the development of digital image and signal processing algorithms for object detection, identification and tracking.
It is hoped that the resulting product will be a real-time data delivery, mission management and sensor control system, which will be targeted for use in manned or unmanned airborne assets, ground based vehicles, or handheld devices.
Joel Strickland, CEO of Navitrak Engineering, stated that the contract will assist the company in creating the standard interface for sensor manufacturers to adhere to.
