The Aeromapper 300 is the latest UAV offer from Aeromao Inc. Canada.
The Aeromapper 300 is one of the most complete UAV for general mappping applications, at the most competitve price on the market. Powerful yet very easy & friendly to use, with 1.5 hour endurance, currently more than two dozen different sensors or combination of sensors supported via swappable mounts, safe parachute landing capability, hand or catapult launch supported, long range data link and control and of course, fully automatic flight.
Despite its size it also has a small turning radius (about 30 m turning radius), making it also ideal for those low altitude–high ground resolution flights in which the flight lines are pretty close to each other.
The standard package of the Aeromapper 300 includes the Sony Nex 7 (24 MP) with a survey grade wide angle rectilinear lens. The UAV is also conceived to carry the mighty Sony Alpha a7r with 36 MP.
Customers can also choose from a large variety of payloads and sensors with swappable mounts, even combination of them (like Sony Nex 5 + tetracam ADC Micro, with simultaneous trigger). Information on the list of sensors and payloads for the Aeromapper family of UAVs is found here: http://www.aeromao.com/uav_payloads
The Aeromapper 300 also comes with a detailed User Manual well supported for first time users with no previous experience using drones, and trainings are also available in Ontario, Canada. Included in the package are all the accessories required as well as quality carrying cases.
Similarly to its smaller brother Aeromapper EV2, the Aeromapper 300 uses the concept of a highly engineered payload bay module attached to a high performance carbon fiber glider aircraft. Using this approach the company is able to offer high end UAVs at the fraction of the cost of other similar drones.
Most UAV manufacturers design and fabricate the fuselage and wings of their drones from scratch, leading to high pre and post production costs. The pod concept used by Aeromao reduces production costs immensely and provides additional advantages:
1. Modularity: since most of the electronics, payload and parachute system are contained in the payload module the fuselage can be easily exchanged for a new one, if required. This process usually takes two hours or less and can be done by the user. In other UAVs if the fuselage is not usable all the electronics and key components need to be migrated to a new fuselage, basically reassembling a new UAV (which leads to high costs and longer lead times)
2. Cost Savings: leveraging on an existing glider airframe produces immense savings, which are passed on to UAV customers. The Aeromapper 300 can match the specifications of other drones that cost $50,000 - $70,000 dollars.
3. Customization: pods can be easily customized for special applications, again, thanks to not having to modify an entire airframe. Customizations are usually affordable and fast.
4. Speed of adaptation: probably one of the most important advantages in the UAV market is the speed at which UAVs can adapt to new applications. If required, only the pod needs to be modified, not the entire fuselage.
For more information please visit http://www.aeromao.com/aeromapper_300
Comments
Fantastic price
Install your own choice of radiocontrol system and autopilot. $4,900 Cad
We can customize the Aeromapper 300 for your specific need
Low sales volume systems for professional use like this are always going to be more than the sum of a list of hobby grade parts. Frankly the criticisms seem churlish. R&D and customer support have a price. I honestly think 3DR's mapping systems seem pricier for what they are. People making these comments need to reference other SYSTEMS on the market. @Mauricio - your comments are barely understandable. If you have a mapping system, documentation, customer support, and an actual product with a website then just share it with us all instead of writing disjointed comments disparaging the efforts of others.
Mauricio "@Mike: I challenge you to make the list of the parts/costs involved! :-)"
Ya betcha!!
I own a Graphite 2E glider 3.1 meter wingspan. Very stable and dependable airframe. Airframe is under $1,000 + servos $400. Empty weight is less than Aeromaster 300. Very durable construction.
For the money paid (airframe only) for Aeromaster 300 you can get three times better airframe, better aerodynamics, thus more flight time and much lighter and stronger. Have been in business for longer than 30 years.
US$4,363 for the airframe? No kidding a great deal! For this kind of money you can get 4M Maxa Longtail and buy a MacBook Pro 15" with tons of options. And I am talking proven best airframe and tons of computer power.
Whoever was is business long enough - we can throw a huge challenge pricewise, qualitywise and durabilitywise. You name it - we can always find a better deal.
Package deal should be sweeter and we see reverse deal here.
Yes and with all the money flowing here with the pipeline work and the oil field and other big project going around here not even saying that were able to fly commercially in Canada
Most of my friend are doing $100 a hour and they have food paid and place to sleep and flight for a week
off to go back home. :-) frigged they import people and give them a free course so much work were short
on people lol
I think it a great time to have a setup like Aeromapper and other platforms.
Myself I would not even feed the trolls ;-)
@mP1: the comparison you have made is very misleading, first of all the cost of our Talon drone includes much more than just the modifications as I'll list below. Second, how are you using for comparison a kit which is just a bunch of unassembled foam parts Vs a ready to fly drone, assembled, modfied, tested and with all the required parts?
To answer your question of how our Aeromapper Talon costs that much, here is the list:
- Talon assembled with motor, servos, ESC all electronics
- Talon modified with quick tail removal, quick wing removal, parachute landing system, camera mount system, (quite significant number of men hours per plane)
- Autopilot + GPS, Long Range control Link, Long range Telemetry, all configured with proven parameter file
- Flight test of each unit (man hours costs, drive to the field, insurance for SFOC costs.....)
- 20 Megapixel camera with survey grade lens, worth $1300 dollars
- Batteries and charger
- Pelican case with custom cut foam (worth almost $900. If don't believe look for yourself Pelican case 1770 and how much will a custom cut costs.
- 40 page manual
- Talon wing extensions
- All configured with a Spectrum DX* radiocontrol
-Development costs
- All the customer support
- And of course, some profit... why not?
Take a $150 kit and add all these. Then let me know.
Just go try to make a parachute deployment system work for an airframe and tell me how long it takes you.
Sorry for this answer, I don't try to be mean, but we are a bit bored of those uninformed comments that just critizise prices based on hobby drone parts costs.
Great looking platform Mauricio
Many thanks for the comments!
Nice web page with lots of info nice going.
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