The DSS 500 featuring In-FlightOrtho™ is a high-productivity “end-to-end” solution designed to make aerial mapping fast and efficient.  The DSS 500 produces highly accurate, high-resolution color and color-infrared digital orthophotos and orthomosaics while still in the air, thereby making in air quality checks a reality.  Avoid re-flying missions with DSS 500 -  and save time and money.

With multiple camera options and configurations, a variety of collection needs ranging from corridor mapping to disaster response mapping and tactical mapping are met with the DSS.  It is a flexible platform that can be customized to meet all needs and price points.

• Simple to use, yet highly accurate:  Rugged system architecture is shock and vibration tested and meets RTCA/DO-160G specifications which makes it perfect for an airborne environment
• Mapping grade camera:  Calibration process USGS certified
• Direct georeferencing:  AT (Aerial Triangulation) not required
• Choice of Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs)
• Professional installation, crew training, and 1 year of ongoing customer support included with every system
• Flexibility:  Custom lenses and lens-mount configuration allows for easy removal and replacement, in flight, without recalibrating
• Modular, expandable, customizable system.  Can be configured with:
  • Dual cameras for greater productivity
  • Simultaneous CIR/NIR, or VIS/Hyperspectral
  • Lidar
  • Oblique camera
  • Rapid ortho development 
• Pilot controlled operation:  Built-in automated Flight Management System (FMS)
• Quick data turnaround:  End-to-end digital processing and direct data import into photogrammetric and GIS systems

• Rapid mobilization for emergencies and disaster management 
• Time-dependent image acquisition, change detection 
• Homeland security
  • Situation assessment
  • Border security

• Threat assessment and preparedness
• Mission planning and operations preparation
• Damage assessment
• Personnel and equipment movement monitoring

• Linear mapping projects 
• Pipeline surveys 
• Power line corridors 
• Transportation routes

• Orthophoto base maps
• Rapid image acquisition 
• Urban and regional planning
  
  

Remote Sensing 

• Color-Infrared imaging
• Object classification
• Environmental assessment
• Coastal zone monitoring 
• Forestry
  • Species identification 
  • Timber value assessment 
  • Disease control 

• Recurrent image acquisition and analysis 
• Disease monitoring