ONERA DRIVE project

Future UAV employment in the civilian areas of surveillance and communication relays can be conceived now at short term range. Flight tests for such applications have already been done and validated UAV interest. In the domain of remote sensing, and more precisely imagery, many payload configurations may be used in UAV operations, but compared to sensors working in other spectral regions (such as optical or infrared sensors), radar sensor has the main advantage to be able to operate in all-weather condition.