ELMO

Expendable Imaging Sensor

Passive; autonomous; rapidly deployable; disposable imaging sensor

Missions:

ISR — Contested Operations — Route Reconnaissance — Maritime Surveillance

ELMO: Rapid, Low-Cost ISR for Contested Environments

Conducting and collecting ISR information is becoming more challenging. Typical ISR operations rely on large, or expensive, major weapons systems that are challenging to challenging to deploy rapidly – and vulnerable to deception or disruption.

Using large, complex weapons systems to conduct ISR is time consuming and puts in jeopardy some of the militaries most expensive assets.

This challenge contrasts with the increasing requirement for rapid, real-time reconnaissance - ideally at as low a cost as possible. These themes become more critical in the contested operating environments of the future.

ELMO provides a rapidly deployable, real time, ISR capability capable of extracting information from anywhere on the planet - at any time - for a very low cost.

ELMO comes pre-configured with a variety of mounting and deployment options. It can be held, dropped, left behind or dispersed; enabling the collection of ISR data in the most challenging contested environments.

Imagery is autonomously extracted, prior to the employment of an AI based Super Resolution process that compresses the information for dissemination over Satcom, before being recreated on the ground control station or aircraft.

Product Features

  • Autonomously captures an image
  • Image anywhere on earth in real time
  • Autonomous image extraction
  • Configurable to detect and classify objects of interest
  • Multiple employment/deployment options
  • Up to 500x autonomous AI Super Resolution Compression
  • Couple of dollars to image anywhere on earth