RedKite is a lightweight, airborne wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) sensor developed by Logos Technologies, a defense contractor based in Fairfax, Virginia.
Since then, company engineers have been creating lighter, more sophisticated versions of the system that includes on onboard edge-processing unit, which prepares collected data while the platform is still in the air.
[8] When flown 12,000 feet above ground level, RedKite images a 12-square kilometer area in real time and medium resolution—allowing the WAMI system to detect and track multiple, geographically dispersed targets at once.
[15][16] This version of the WAMI sensor would later be renamed RedKite-I and unveiled as an official product offering for the Integrator at the 2018 Association of the United States Army (AUSA) expo.
[18] In 2018, RedKite won two industry awards: one from Aviation Week (“Defense: Best New Product”) [19] and the other from GSN: Government Security News (“Best City-Wide Video Surveillance”).