Recent months have seen the first wide-area sensors going on the export market for the first time.
The Simera from Logos Technologies and the CorvusEye from Exelis are the offerings now available to non-US customers and both are designed to offer a lightweight persistent surveillance solution for aerostats and unmanned vehicles.
Simera is an electro-optical (EO) system from Logos based its earlier Kestrel EO and infra-red (IR) system. Simera was developed as a less-sophisticated and therefore less expensive version of Kestrel, which is too advanced to be exported to foreign customers.
Kestrel was the only aerostat-based wide area motion