Industry | Unmanned aerial vehicles services |
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Founded | 2007 |
Headquarters | Moià, Spain |
Key people | Jordi Santacana, CEO |
Number of employees | < 10 |
Website | www.catuav.com |
CATUAV S.L. is a technology based private company that offers aerial services using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). Its headquarters are located in the Moià airfield, 40 km north from Barcelona ( Spain) [1].
CATUAV has been one of the pioneers in developing UAV technologies for aerial image acquisition purposes. The first UAV prototype was build in 2003, as a new business line inside Aeroplans Blaus S.L, a company dedicated to experimental and sport aviation equipment. During this first period some surveillance UAV systems were developed inside a strategic agreement with Proytecsa and Indra. In 2007 the UAV business line had grown enough to create a new company, being CATUAV founded to cover all the services offered with these systems. In 2008 the company signed an strategic agreement with AURENSIS, a Telespazio/ Finmeccanica company [2]. Since then CATUAV has performed more than 100 commercial missions in the civil market, being one of the companies with more experience in this field.
Since 2003 CATUAV has developed different technologies in order to perform its services. A list of the main ones is presented below:
Furthermore it is known that CATUAV is also operating third party products that play an important role in its activity, such as:
The services that the company can offer now include [3]:
CATUAV has been awarded with the Galileo Masters European GNSS Agency (GSA) special topic prize and regional prize in 2011 for its TCAS for mini UAV project [7] [8].
Industry | Unmanned aerial vehicles services |
---|---|
Founded | 2007 |
Headquarters | Moià, Spain |
Key people | Jordi Santacana, CEO |
Number of employees | < 10 |
Website | www.catuav.com |
CATUAV S.L. is a technology based private company that offers aerial services using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). Its headquarters are located in the Moià airfield, 40 km north from Barcelona ( Spain) [1].
CATUAV has been one of the pioneers in developing UAV technologies for aerial image acquisition purposes. The first UAV prototype was build in 2003, as a new business line inside Aeroplans Blaus S.L, a company dedicated to experimental and sport aviation equipment. During this first period some surveillance UAV systems were developed inside a strategic agreement with Proytecsa and Indra. In 2007 the UAV business line had grown enough to create a new company, being CATUAV founded to cover all the services offered with these systems. In 2008 the company signed an strategic agreement with AURENSIS, a Telespazio/ Finmeccanica company [2]. Since then CATUAV has performed more than 100 commercial missions in the civil market, being one of the companies with more experience in this field.
Since 2003 CATUAV has developed different technologies in order to perform its services. A list of the main ones is presented below:
Furthermore it is known that CATUAV is also operating third party products that play an important role in its activity, such as:
The services that the company can offer now include [3]:
CATUAV has been awarded with the Galileo Masters European GNSS Agency (GSA) special topic prize and regional prize in 2011 for its TCAS for mini UAV project [7] [8].