Aerial
Wildfire
Fighting

Saving lives & property

When it comes to combating wildfires, aerial firefighting aircrews are the heroes on the frontlines. Trakka Systems provides a total solution package that equips these crews with the necessary tools to navigate through smoke, haze, and darkness, providing critical support to the ground teams.

With Trakka Systems’ critical vision technologies, aerial firefighting teams can confidently tackle even the most challenging fires, gaining enhanced awareness of fire behavior, enabling them to predict, detect, and analyze wildfires more effectively.

TrakkaCam’s radiometric airborne camera measures temperature and U.V. discharge levels, while our short-wave infrared sensors are ideally suited to see through haze and dense smoke, delivering clear imaging and visibility.

The TrakkaBeam high-intensity searchlight provides powerful lighting in compromised environments, and our TrakkaMaps mapping software offers a comprehensive range of views, including 3D, street, satellite, and augmented reality, to ensure situational clarity and effective communication.

Trakka Total Mission Solutions empower firefighting aircrews to make optimal decisions in the heat of the moment, saving lives, protecting property, and minimizing the economic impact of uncontrolled wildfires.

MISSION PRODUCTS

TrakkaCam

TC-300-R

Trakka’s TC-300-R is a compact, stabilized, radiometric thermal imaging/video system that gives utility and environmental operators the capability to measure temperatures in real-time, and capture high-definition video from an airborne platform. The TC-300-R allows for faster inspection speeds and saves utility companies costs by helping to reduce reactive maintenance and unscheduled downtime. In addition to utility inspections, the TC-300-R is an invaluable tool for wildfire fighting. The radiometric camera penetrates through smoke and provides temperature measurements in real-time of hot spots, day and night. The system is ITAR free and widely exportable.

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TC-300-R comes standard with embedded metadata, Moving Target Detection (MTI), and a fully integrated IMU/INS for Geo-Location, Geo Hold, and simplified Moving Maps integration, enabling operators and commanders to share mission-critical information in real-time. The payloads are supported by 4-axis active gyro-stabilization and integrated 6-axis passive vibration isolation to compensate for aircraft maneuvering and eliminate external vibrations producing clear stable High-Definition images. The TC-300-R provides the geographical coordinates to direct firefighters and water bombers to critical locations. Coupled with the TM-100’s measuring tools, the system informs the command center of the fire’s perimeter, distance to buildings and roads, and its progress. TC-300-R is available with the TrakkaMaps TM-100 map and video management system. It easily integrates with the TrakkaBeam TLX, TLXc, or 800 searchlights for a fully integrated total surveillance solution package.

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Features

Radiometric thermal camera with real – time temperature measurement capability.

Radiometric output provides f ull thermal resolution images

Detailed temperature analysis and reporting software

Single LRU and MISB compliant video on Ethernet streams

Product is completely ITAR – free and are widely exportable

TrakkaCam

SWE-400 QUAD

Trakka’s SWE-400 QUAD multi-purpose, stabilized, multi-spectral imaging system gives utility and environmental operators the capability to measure temperatures in real-time, detect Corona discharges, and capture high-definition video and mega-pixel digital still photos from an airborne platform.

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The SWE-400 QUAD increases inspection speeds and saves utility companies costs by helping to reduce reactive maintenance and unscheduled downtime. The system is also an effective tool for oil spill detection, as the long-wave infrared camera detects thick oil sheens, and the specialized UV camera detects thinner sheens. The SWE-400 QUAD is also invaluable for wildfire fighting missions, as the radiometric camera penetrates through smoke to see hot spots and provides temperature measurements in real-time. The UV camera determines the direction and behavior of the fire and provides the geographical coordinates to direct firefighters and water bombers to critical locations. The fully digital 4-axis active gyro stabilization gimbal compensates for aircraft maneuvering and eliminates external vibrations. Coupled with the TM-100’s measuring tools, the system informs the command center of the fire’s perimeter, distance to buildings and roads, and its progress. 

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Features

Radiometric output provides full thermal resolution images

Realtime temperature measurements

Detailed temperature analysis and reporting software

Solar Blind UV channel for Corona detection

High resolution digital stills photo camera with continuous zoom lens.

All stored photos are geo – referenced with location information.

MISB compliant video on Ethernet streams

TrakkaCam

TC-300-SWIR

Trakka’s TC-300-SWIR stabilized, compact, multi-sensor surveillance system features a shortwave infrared camera. The system is uniquely suited to penetrate through the most challenging atmospheric conditions such as haze, mist, fog, high humidity, rain, smog, and smoke. TC-300-SWIR is ideal for maritime and firefighting applications among many others. The shortwave IR camera sees reflected energy and produces images with higher contrast that are easier to interpret than standard color cameras or mid-wave infrared imagers when operating in degraded atmospheres. The TC-300-SWIR is ITAR free and widely exportable.

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The TC-300-SWIR comes standard with embedded metadata, Moving Target Detection (MTI), and a fully integrated IMU/INS for Geo-Location, Geo Hold, and simplified Moving Maps integration, enabling operators and commanders to share mission-critical information in real-time. The payloads are supported by 4-axis active gyro-stabilization and integrated 6-axis passive vibration isolation to compensate for aircraft maneuvering and eliminate external vibrations producing clear stable High-Definition images. The system includes an all-digital architecture and real-time vision-aiding features like picture-in-picture, split-screen, and image blending allowing operators to extract scene details that would otherwise go unnoticed. The TC-300-SWIR is available with the TrakkaMaps TM-100 map and video management system. It easily integrates with the TrakkaBeam TLX, TLXc, or 800 searchlights for a fully integrated total surveillance solution package.

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Features

Full suite of six payloads: I.R., SWIR, HDTV, LRF, A/T, IMU/GPS

RTCA DO-160 Tested for Environmental, Electromagnetic and Mechanical Compliance

Non-ITAR product

Continuous Optical Zoom on all imaging payloads

TrakkaMaps

TM-100

TrakkaMaps TM-100 is a full-featured mission mapping and video management system that can run on various computer platforms, including notebooks and ruggedized laptops. The affordable and flexible architecture is easily customizable with open-source databases and user proprietary secure databases. Designed to integrate with TrakkaCam cameras and TrakkaBeam searchlights, the TM-100 can slew the camera and searchlight’s line of sight to any point on the map with the touch of the screen, mouse click, address, intersection, city, points of interest, or coordinate entries. The TM-100’s intuitive touchscreen controls offer 3D, street, satellite, and custom map views, available with augmented reality overlays on live video imagery.

Features

Operator selectable viewing modes

3D map views

Augmented Reality (A.R.) overlays on live video imagery

Plug and play with other Trakka products; low-cost full-featured mapping

Innovative post-mission image and video processing

Did you know?


According to the US Geological Survey, in 2019, it cost approximately $5 billion a year to respond to wildfires, and the net economic impact is about $72 billion a year. Yet wildfires also play an essential role in helping sustain healthy and productive ecosystems. Lightning strikes, sparks from power lines, or spread from a campfire are some of the ways wildland fires start. Wildfires are caused by humans about 85% of the time.