Singapore tests decentralised UAV imagery distribution system
Singapore troops utilise the Mobile Imagery Intelligence Dissemination System in an exercise. (Photo: MINDEF)
Singapore is pushing imagery and data from UAVs down to even lower levels with a new device that was recently fielded to army troops.
The Singapore Armed Forces are currently trialling a decentralised UAV imagery distribution system, which allows troops in the field to access real-time video data from Republic of Singapore Air Force Heron 1 UAVs.
Known as the Mobile Imagery Intelligence Dissemination System (MIDS), troops with laptops can directly access and view images from the Heron Mk 1 via a secured and encrypted 4G network.
Previously, such intelligence was limited to the command post and a physical infrastructure set-up.
MIDS was developed in collaboration with the UAV Command and unspecified local partners; it was introduced in August.
The system was rolled out
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