PRESS
RELEASE
Metropolitan
Police EC145 helicopters ‘Mission
Equipped’
London, 24th May 2007. Skyquest
Aviation has completed the supply of their VMS mission
systems for London’s
Metropolitan Police. Three EC145 helicopters have been
fully mission equipped using Skyquest’s latest
video management technology bringing total flexibility
and enhanced mission management to the police air support
wing.
view video demo here
Each of the EC145 helicopters
is fitted with 5 multi-function high definition mission
displays capable of displaying
single or multiple images to each user. Using Skyquest’s ‘quad’ technology
an airborne police observer can view all the information
from his multi-sensor camera system as well as a moving
map on the screen simultaneously and choose which sensor
is giving him the most important information.
Single or quad view images can
be recorded and transmitted via the aircraft’s
microwave link system to ground based receivers bringing
new levels of data and information to commanders
on the ground.
As part of Skyquest’s supply,
each aircraft is also fitted with 4 video recorders
and a host of other mission equipment including a
comprehensive video management unit enabling aircraft
installation to be simplified by only requiring one
cable to be routed to each display. The single cable
manages the total distribution of all signals on
the aircraft and handles signal conversion and amplification
to enable all displays to view the same image (if
required) without any signal loss.
Skyquest’s integration
of ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) computers,
external hoist cameras, and other mission management
computers provides total flexibility to each user.
Sergeant Richard Brandon from
the Metropolitan Police said that “Skyquest’s VMS system has proven
to deliver everything we wanted from our mission system
on board the new EC145’s. It provides us with
a comprehensive and leading edge video system enabling
us to undertake a range of different roles without
the need for re-configuring equipment. We can view,
record and transmit whatever information we need -
whilst one observer is looking at the infra red sensor
another can be viewing other sensor information from
the same camera system but on a different display simultaneously”
Skyquest have received multiple orders for their VMS
system since its launch last year and the system is
fast becoming the standard fit for many airborne surveillance
users throughout Europe.
Skyquest Aviation supply industry leading video display,
video distribution, video recording and video transmitting
technology for airborne surveillance aircraft.
