Smart Sensors
Wide-Area Coverage. Real-Time Intelligence.
About Smart Sensors
Overwatch Imaging Smart Sensors are purpose-built for autonomous airborne intelligence, integrating high-resolution multispectral imaging with onboard edge processing and AI-driven autonomy. Engineered for wide-area collection and real-time exploitation, they execute end-to-end ISR workflows at the edge. The result is scalable, high-fidelity, actionable intelligence delivered at speed in bandwidth-constrained, remote, and time-critical operational environments.
TK-7 / TK-8
TK Series
NADIR ORIENTED multispectral sensor systems optimized for high quality, high resolution multispectral imagery for wide-area, multi-domain mapping and ISR.
APPLICATIONS:
✓ Real-Time Wildfire, Disaster Intelligence
✓ Wide-Area Inspection and Mapping
✓ Multi-Mission Tactical ISR
✓ Maritime Search and Detection
✓ Environmental Applications
✓ Vehicle Detection and Filtering
PT-6 / PT-8
PT Series
Outward Facing EO/IR sensor systems optimized for automatically scanning, finding and detecting objects of interest over wide areas
APPLICATIONS:
✓ Systematic Wide-Area Maritime Search
✓ Optimized for UAS Integration
✓ Collaborative Operations with EO/IR Gimbals
✓ AI-Powered Object Detection
✓ AIS Signal Fusion
✓ Real-Time Mapping
Eliminate the 'Soda-Straw' Effect
We eliminate the “soda-straw effect” inherent to traditional video gimbal systems, where obtaining actionable-resolution imagery forces operators into focus-intensive search, narrow fields of view, and severely constrained area coverage.
Overwatch Imaging systems employ automated wide-area data collection in a Step-Stare Imaging pattern, combined with onboard, real-time processing and analysis. Powered by Autonomous Sensor Operator (ASO) software, sensors rapidly and autonomously scan large areas and revisit locations without reliance on human interpretation cycles or datalink bandwidth.
This architecture delivers simultaneous gains in area coverage, analysis speed, and target resolution, enabling faster, more scalable, and more effective ISR across large land and maritime environments.
Smart Sensors Built For
Multidomaion, Multimission Autonomy
Enable Superhuman Vision
ASO applies AI-driven, edge-resident analytics to autonomously scan wide areas, perform real-time pixel-level exploitation, and detect and prioritize objects of interest beyond human visual and cognitive limits.
Solve the Single Sensor Problem
ASO autonomously slews and retasks the sensor across multiple points of interest at high refresh rates, enabling precise, adaptable multi-point surveillance that would otherwise require multiple sensors, multiple operators, or multiple aircraft to replicate.
Unlock New Capabilities
Software-defined ISR enables capabilities beyond human-in-the-loop sensor operation—autonomous wide-area mapping, real-time object detection/classification, and rapid sensor retasking—while providing a direct path to continuous modernization through software updates rather than hardware replacement.