Simlat was selected to provide an advanced Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Training and Simulation Classroom to support the Northland Community and Technical College Imagery Analysis (IA) programme in Thief River Falls, MN/USA.
The Imagery Analysis programme was developed through a Department of Labor grant and will be offered tuition free for the life of the grant. The programmes will prepare students to manage the tasking, processing, exploitation, and dissemination (TPED) process, and conduct end-to-end Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) operations. Students will acquire a variety of skills ranging from UAS general knowledge to a precise depiction of the imagery objective and they will receive hands-on training varying from still satellite imagery to Full Motion Video UAS derived imagery.
Simlat is providing 26 Trainee Stations to the Training & Simulation Center that are based on a variant of Simlat’s IMPACT (ISR Multi-Purpose Advanced Classroom Trainer) product. IMPACT is focused on various GEOINT applications and supports frontal instruction, courses and training activities as well as curriculum planning and development and performance analysis of training sessions.
IMPACT runs a wide range of mission scenarios that familiarizes students with civil and commercial applications of UAS and Imagery Analysis, such as emergencies, weather, infrastructure monitoring, fire-fighting, HLS and agriculture. The Training Center will be delivered fully to Northland by the beginning of 2014.
Simlat UAS was selected by ING Robotic Aviation to provide its UAS training systems, including the C-STAR and SPOT systems, to support Canadore College’s new UAV operator’s course in North Bay, ON/Canada.
ISR Training & Simulation systems will also be part of the first UAV operator’s training programme in Ontario, Canada. ING Robotic Aviation provided curriculum design and training system recommendations and will also provide instructors for the course.
Simlat was furthermore selected to provide UAS Training & Simulation systems – including the ASTRUM Aerostat and additional ISR Operations solutions – to Summit Systems, a Czech Republic provider of solutions in the Homeland Security (HLS) and unmanned fields. Simlat’s training systems will provide a high fidelity training solution for Aerostat pilots and payload operators, including simulation of platform, payload, weather and environment.