Description

First thing to remember. These EO/IR pods on the drone are much older than 2014. Something to keep in mind. They were probably built in '08 - '10, which means it's '06-'07. Thermography has come light years over the past 10 years. On these EO/IR balls that are on the MQ-1C/L Gray Eagle. There are fusion multiplexers that feeds all of the video back to a single UPLINK/Satellite. You setup multiple profiles for each camera to record and send back to whomever is flying it. For example.

Profile 1 - Onboard recorder 640x480 @ 15fps

Profile 2 - Pilot Live View 1024x768 @ 24fps

Profile 3 - Live Stream 3rd party 340x760 @ 10fps

TELEDYNE FLIR BFS-PGE-51S5P-C, 5.0 MP, 24 FPS, POLAR-MONO, C-MOUNT BRAND NEW (https://preview.redd.it/rqgxvkmouxib1.png?width=480&format=png&auto=w…)

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As it implies. You can use gray or color for your pictures. Colorscale can be locked completely out where an operator doesn't even know it exists. All *extra* functions for these cameras can be hidden from the end user. That's why you get such a differing opinion on the matter. (https://preview.redd.it/iz7zcrowqxib1.png?width=865&format=png&auto=w…)

You can set the FPS to whatever you want. Typically the FPS is VARIABLE to the UPLINK you have. (https://preview.redd.it/8jd8hw4ovxib1.png?width=915&format=png&auto=w…)

Sometimes you just want to know what all of those fields mean (https://preview.redd.it/6ifz3wzprxib1.png?width=928&format=png&auto=w…)

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