NOVATEM : a comprehensive system

NOVATEM is a self-operating system: no operator is required on board. Having no operator on board, the range of each flight is increased. Having all the sensitive instrumentation inside the helicopter, NOVATEM is designed for hard conditions including very low temperature.

Quality controls parameters are provided to the pilot in real-time in the same time with the height above the ground and the attitude of the frame.

The current ramp is measured for every turn-on and recorded together with the full stream data sets. Both ‘on-time’ and ‘off-time’ measurements are recorded and post processing uses digital gates with delay times from 5 microseconds to 10 milliseconds in order to obtain the maximum signal to noise ratio.

Electronic parameters are controlled and re-calibrated in flight if necessary. This procedure secures the correct functionality of the system during data acquisition.