Scientific Systems has introduced the development of ImageNav™, an image-based navigation software program designed to be used in environments the place GPS alerts are compromised.

With over a decade of improvement and funding exceeding $45 million, ImageNav™ gives a sturdy various to conventional GPS navigation for army operations, notably in contested environments the place digital jamming poses a menace to GPS reliability.

The want for such know-how has turn into more and more vital in mild of enhancements to digital warfare capabilities, with cases of GPS sign disruption impacting army belongings. ImageNav™ addresses this vulnerability by offering exact navigation for a variety of programs, together with weapons, plane, and uncrewed plane programs (UAS), with out reliance on GPS alerts.

Utilizing an onboard electro-optical (EO) or infrared (IR) digital digital camera, ImageNav™ employs a trio of algorithms to research captured pictures and correlate them with saved terrain and picture references. This course of permits each absolute and relative navigation place updates, providing an modern resolution to take care of navigation accuracy even in GPS-denied situations. The know-how’s potential to run completely “at-the-edge” permits for integration into air platforms as a software program improve or as a part of a self-contained {hardware} payload, minimizing dimension, weight, and energy necessities.

Tom Frost, Senior VP of the Products Division at Scientific Systems, highlighted the significance of ImageNav™ as an answer for air autos to generate correct place fixes in difficult operational environments. The know-how’s improvement comes at an important time, with latest reviews underscoring the urgency of creating dependable non-GPS steerage programs within the face of profitable GPS jamming efforts.

Scientific Systems is actively pursuing the mixing of ImageNav™ onto GPS-guided munitions and UAS, enabling their efficient operation in environments the place GPS entry is denied. Recent testing has demonstrated the know-how’s functionality to navigate with out GPS, hitting targets inside required efficiency parameters.