ORC-CS
Key to large-area data collects is the SPEC Lab's Off-Road Command & Control Station (ORC-CS). Our system, build 1 completed in 2023, features a heavy-duty 4x4 Ford F-250 highly-customized bed and payload space (to be completed August 2023), and capable of hauling off-road up to 16,000 lbs. of fragile vibration isolated payload and a heavy trailer-mounted 50-70 ft. manlift, enabling large area visual line of sight data collection, while maintaining satellite communications and multi-sensor GatorEye XL mission operations, flight system and sensors calibration and maintenance, and airspace deconfliction, under even adverse climate conditions and in difficult remote terrain. The system includes a highly customized optional transportation trailer with vibration absorbing 'trampoline' bedmount and drone crane for efficient single person flight operations of GatorEye XL ‘Harris Aerial-based’ systems. It is being used extensively in establishment and multi-temporal monitoring as relates to our BigPlotNetwork program, and specifically for long-term monitoring of Hurricane damages across the Southeast - which then integrate for calibration and validation into our StormCloud system.
Concept image, source: 4x4 Australia.
