CATUAV
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| Industry | Unmanned aerial vehicles services |
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| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder | Jordi Santacana |
| Headquarters | Moià, Spain |
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Key people
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Jordi Salvador, Marc Beltran |
| Products | Atmos, Argos, Furos, Stratos |
| Website | www.catuav.com |
CATUAV S.L. is a technology-based private company that offers aerial services using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Its headquarters are located in the Moià airfield in the BCN Drone Center, 40 km north of Barcelona, Spain.
CATUAV is a company involved in developing UAV technologies for aerial image acquisition purposes in Europe. The first UAV prototype was built in 2003, as a new business line within Aeroplans Blaus S.L., a company dedicated to experimental and sport aviation equipment. During this period some surveillance UAV systems were developed as part of a strategic agreement with Proytecsa and Indra.
In 2007 the UAV business line had grown enough to create a new company, CATUAV, founded to provide all the services offered with these systems. In 2008 the company signed a strategic agreement with AURENSIS, a Telespazio/Finmeccanica company. Since then CATUAV has performed more than 100 commercial missions in the civil market.
Since 2003 CATUAV has developed different technologies in order to perform its services:
CATUAV also operates third party products that play a role in its activity, such as:
Some services the company offers include:
Orthophotos are aerial photographies that have been geometrically corrected such that the scale is uniform, having each pixel an associated geographic coordinate. Orthophotos have the same lack of distortion as maps, so they are an accurate representation of the Earth's surface that can be used to measure distances.
Using photogrammetric software the aerial images acquired with UAV systems can be rectified and merged in order to create orthorectified image mosaics of the desired extension. The orthophotos have a resolution between 5 cm to 2m/píxel. In one flight areas up to 1000 hectares can be detected.
The generation of the orthophotos is made using software that automatically applies photogrammetric principles to rectify the images. As input it needs georeferenced aerial images and the usage of a calibrated camera. This process leads to submeter precisions in the full orthophoto extension, which can still can be increased adding manual control points.
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