Unmanned Helicopters for Refinery Inspections

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Unmanned Helicopters for Refinery Inspections

05 Dec, 2011

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High Eye Unmanned Aviation is a unique international company based in the Netherlands specialising in unmanned helicopters capable of achieving high stability in various weather conditions. The systems can carry and steer several gyro stabilised cameras, payloads up to 55 kg, and fly for up to 8 hours.

A VTOL UAS adds unique flexibility to NDT and other operations and delivers capability that manned helicopters, airplanes, and even fixed-wing UAVs cannot offer. Its long endurance, small logistic footprint and very low operating costs, as well as the ability to hover for extended periods of time, whilst providing operators with extensive fields of view, recording in HD or IR or take high resolution imagery both day and night, make it the ideal platform for a wide range of operations.

High Eye helicopters have been used by Shell Oil, Dutch police, French navy, US military, various Hollywood film & television producers.

Various applications include: NDT and NDI inspections in infrared and color HD, event monitoring, accurate water temperature measurements and pollution monitoring.

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