The Buckeye system (also called BuckEye) is an operational airborne surveying system that provides high-resolution spatial imagery over an area of interest to support military operations involved with intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.[1][2] Once mounted on a helicopter or an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), it incorporates visual information from a digital camera and elevation data from a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system to create a two and three-dimensional colored map with orthorectified, 4 to 6-inch resolution.[3]
Buckeye has been used by deployed personnel from the Topographic Engineering Center to support operations in both Afghanistan and Iraq, including Operation Iraqi Freedom.[2] In 2007, it was named by the Army as one of the top ten inventions of 2006.[4]
- ^ Powell, Walter; Laskey, Kathryn; Adelman, Leonard; Johnson, Ryan; Altenau, Michael; Goldstein, Andrew; Visone, Daniel; Braswell, Kenneth (June 2009). "Evaluation of High Resolution Imagery and Elevation Data" (PDF). U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 23, 2017 – via Defense Technical Information Center.
- ^ a b U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (January 2005). "Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining: BuckEye Fact Sheet - An Airborne High Resolution Digital Imaging System". Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
- ^ Fischer, Robert L.; Kennedy, Brian G.; Jones, Mitchell; Walker, Jeffrey; Muresan, Darian; Baxter, Gregory; Flood, Mark; Follmer, Brian; Sun, Xiuhong (2008-04-23). "Development, integration, testing, and evaluation of the U.S. Army Buckeye System to the NAVAIR Arrow UAV". In Carapezza, Edward M (ed.). Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications X. Vol. 6963. p. 696318. doi:10.1117/12.778243. S2CID 110932740.
- ^ "State bases developed many of Army?s top inventions". Washington Examiner. 2007-06-20. Retrieved 2018-06-25.