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14 Platform one Dr Donough Wilson Dr Wilson is innovation lead at aviation, defence, and homeland security innovation consultants, VIVID/ futureVision. His defence innovations include the cockpit vision system that protects military aircrew from asymmetric high-energy laser attack. He was first to propose the automatic tracking and satellite download of airliner black box and cockpit voice recorder data in the event of an airliner’s unplanned excursion from its assigned flight level or track. For his ‘outstanding and practical contribution to the safer operation of aircraft’ he was awarded The Sir James Martin Award 2018/19, by the Honourable Company of Air Pilots. Paul Weighell Paul has been involved with electronics, computer design and programming since 1966. He has worked in the real-time and failsafe data acquisition and automation industry using mainframes, minis, micros and cloud-based hardware on applications as diverse as defence, Siberian gas pipeline control, UK nuclear power, robotics, the Thames Barrier, Formula One and automated financial trading systems. Ian Williams-Wynn Ian has been involved with unmanned and autonomous systems for more than 20 years. He started his career in the military, working with early prototype unmanned systems and exploiting imagery from a range of unmanned systems from global suppliers. He has also been involved in ground-breaking research including novel power and propulsion systems, sensor technologies, communications, avionics and physical platforms. His experience covers a broad spectrum of domains from space, air, maritime and ground, and in both defence and civil applications including, more recently, connected autonomous cars. Unmanned Systems Technology’s consultants Mavoljic has developed a global- shutter full HD video camera with a 30x optical zoom that weighs only 150 g. It is intended for airborne surveillance applications (writes Nick Flaherty). A global-shutter camera gives a higher quality image, as all the pixels are captured simultaneously rather than scanned line by line, as in a rolling shutter. The camera has a resolution of 1920 x 180 pixels, a 24 fps output and measures 120 x 45 x 50 mm. The zoom comes from a new optics design and avoids the image degradation of a digital zoom. The camera has an Ethernet output and is powered by a 12 V supply. Airborne vehicles Global camera February/March 2020 | Unmanned Systems Technology This global-shutter full HD camera has a 30x optical zoom but weighs only 150 g (Courtesy of Mavoljic) Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik has developed a variety of high-speed connector systems for UAVs (writes Nick Flaherty). Sensor systems in UAVs increasingly need to handle data rates up to 20 Gbit/s for positioning accuracy when detecting and inspecting objects in GPS or Lidar systems, or to enable error-free real-time signal transmissions from 4K cameras or radar sensor systems that continuously monitor altitude and direction in flight. The company’s H-MTD is a 360 º fully shielded differential connector system for Ethernet applications. It supports data transmissions of up to 15 GHz or 20 Gbit/s, and comes in an automotive- grade housing. Meanwhile, its FAKRA connectors have data rates of up to 8 Gbit/s and a temperature range from 0 to 105 C. Fast connectors Airborne vehicles