UAV Thermal Payload

Give your drone thermal vision.

The Thermal Backpack adds a high-resolution thermal camera to your existing drone. Watch live on any device while the backpack records everything on board. No new airframe to buy, no app to install, no cloud.

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The Thermal Backpack on a DJI Air 3S: a white sculpted arm holds a thermal lens beside the drone body, with a cable running over the top shell

640 × 480

Thermal resolution

30 fps

Live view and on-board recording

Any device

Phone, tablet or laptop, in the browser

Your drone

Mounts to the airframe you own

Connected30 fpsPalette: Iron

A thermal frame recorded from the air in the Iron palette: a parked car glows yellow and a person stands beside it, against a cool purple driveway and lawn

See what daylight cameras miss.

Inspect homes and roofs, find people, and track wildlife, day or night. The picture is on your screen the moment the drone is up.

Any device is the screen

Join the backpack’s own Wi-Fi from a phone, tablet or laptop and open the viewer in a browser. Nothing to download, and no internet needed in the field.

Keeps recording beyond signal range

Every photo and video is captured on the backpack itself, at the full frame rate. Start a recording, fly out of range, and it keeps going. Transfer everything to your device later.

Find what you came for

Check a home for heat loss, pick out a person in the dark, or follow wildlife through cover. Tap any point to compare it live, mark the hottest and coldest points, and switch palettes and zoom as you fly.

Keep the data

Save photos and video to any device, and keep the per-pixel data when you want to analyse a flight later.

Mount it

The backpack is fitted to your airframe and rides on the drone. Your stock camera and gimbal stay as they are.

Connect any device

Power up, join the backpack’s Wi-Fi and open the viewer in a browser. Live thermal is on your screen.

Fly and record

Fly your mission as usual, in or out of signal range. Photos and video stay on the backpack until you transfer them to your device.

Built onto the drone, not into it.

Close-up of the sculpted white arm holding the thermal lens against the drone body, on its custom-made backpack adapter — A sculpted arm for a clear view

A lightweight arm holds the lens clear of the airframe, carried on a backpack adapter custom-made for the drone.
Our generative-design work

Front view of the drone: the thermal lens sits on the arm beside the stock camera gimbal — Works alongside your stock camera

The thermal lens sits beside the gimbal, so your daylight camera stays in place and flies as it always has.

Specifications

Imaging

Thermal resolution: 640 × 480
Frame rate: 30 fps
Lenses: Wide, standard and narrow options
Palettes: White hot, black hot, iron, rainbow and more
Digital zoom: 1×, 2× and 4×

Capture

Video: H.264, plays on phones, tablets and computers
Photos: Image files, with per-pixel data
Storage: On the backpack, transferred to your device later
Beyond signal range: Recording continues

Viewing

Viewer: Runs in the browser on a phone, tablet or laptop
Connection: The backpack’s own password-protected Wi-Fi
Cloud or accounts: None required

Fit

Shown on: DJI Air 3S
Other drones: Tell us what you fly

Ready to fit your fleet?

Tell us how many sensors you need and which drones they are going on. An engineer will reply with a quote.

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