UAV - SPECS.pdf

Specifications sheet Large Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

GENERAL INFORMATION

1.0 Scope of Work: A large Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is needed for making field maps and extracting phenotype data from agricultural fields.

2.0 Background: Large UAVs can be used to take high resolution and overlapping data using many different camara platforms across agricultural fields. When these images are joined together, they can form a field map and many important and useful plant and field traits can be obtained from them with higher accuracy and lower cost than obtaining these same traits by hand.

CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS

3.0 Technical Requirements/Tasks:

A large Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle (UAV) meeting the following requirements:

1) Must be on the U.S.A. Department of Defense Blue sUAS list

(https://www.diu.mil/autonomy-blue-suas).

2) Must be a rotary blade type UAV capable of hovering and mapping at low speeds, NOT a fixed wing UAV.

3) Maximum payload of at least 15kg.

4) Designed for all weather.

5) Capable of flying at least 50 min with no payload and 35 min with 8 lbs.

payload.

6) Must include:

a. Drone

b. Controller

c. Travel case

d. Landing gear

e. Batteries (at least one)

f. Charger

4.0 Government Furnished: N/A

5.0 Deliverables / Schedule:

Key Deliverables Product/Service Delivery deadline

Fully functioning UAV as described above 3/31/2023

Deliver to:

USDA-ARS PGRU

c/o Jacob Washburn 205 Curtis Hall Univ. of Mo.

Columbia, Mo 65211 https://www.diu.mil/autonomy-blue-suas

6.0 Travel: Not applicable.

7.0 Contractor’s Key Personnel: Not applicable.

8.0 Security Requirements: Not applicable.

9.0 Data Rights: Not applicable.

10.0 Section 508 – Electronic and Information Technology Standards: Not applicable.