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MoD Grand Challenge 2008 Finale: Part 1 |
Example of the aerial imagery we had from our aircraft
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Copehill Down Village |
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Map from Google Earth |
Courtesy Josh Levine
The pre-trial area.
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The CropCam aircraft was used as a high flying "spy plane" |
Ken Lees and Dewar Donnithorne-Tait getting the CropCam aircraft ready, with Claire, our PA, looking on...
Ken hand launches the CropCam from outside the Forward Operating Base ("FOB").
The Unmanned Aircraft is airborne. Smile!
We flew in very gusty conditions, as seen from the flight log. We had programmed in a series of offset ellipses.
The quality of the imagery from the Pentax Optio camera was excellent, an example of which is shown above.
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Pre-Trials 2 and 3 |
Above: the flight plan. below: the flight log, again showing the gusty conditions we flew in...
Above: no problem spotting the "technical", a truck on which has been mounted a heavy gun...
The "IED" (actually a plastic container) was a bit more tricky from 400 feet above ground level...
The good thing about aerial imagery is that you can easily see into compounds and behind walls.
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The finalists for the MoD Grand Challenge 2008 |
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Team Barnard
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Team Mindsheet
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Team Mira
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Team Silicon Valley
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Team Stellar
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Team Thales
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Team Tumbleweed
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The one hour Finale: the Barnard Team perspective |
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The target area |
The target area is shown within the red dotted boundary
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The "Golden Hour" |
Again, the quality of the aerial imagery we had was excellent...
At the "control centre" next to the launch site, the photo interpretation work was intense.
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And the winner of the MoD Grand Challenge 2008 was: Team Stellar |
Our congratulations to Dr Julia Richardson (shown above with the R. J. Mitchell Trophy) and her colleagues in Team Stellar. Philippa Forrester, a popular TV presenter, is on the right hand side.
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