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Neutrino<span>&reg;</span>
Neutrino®

Midwave Infrared Cooled Camera Module

Where SWaP are design constraints, and cost and performance is desired, Neutrino® is the ideal solution. The Neutrino offers FLIR'scommon image processing architecture and the resulting image from the 640×512 InSb array is superb! Weighing in at less than 16 oz (<450 gm) and consuming less than 5 watts at steady-state, it is FLIR's balanced MWIR core optimizing performance, cost, and ease of integration.

Mini-Core HRC
Mini-Core HRC

Midwave Infrared (MWIR) Cooled Camera Module

The FLIR Mini-Core HRC mid-wave camera core is available in multiple configurations, making it extremely OEM-friendly. 300Z comes with continuous optical zoom; 460T comes with three lenses that are instantaneously remotely interchangeable depending on whether you need to see far, middle distance or near; if your application calls for a consistent field of view, then you can select fixed, interchangeable lenses; or, you can select a lens-less core wherein you implement your own optical path.

µCore-275Z
µCore-275Z

Midwave Infrared (MWIR) Cooled Camera Module

The FLIR µCore-275Z mid-wave camera core provides OEMs with an extremely compact, turnkey cooled core solution. Operating in the 3-5 micron waveband, µCore-275Z is lightweight and easy to integrate into small products such as airborne gimbals.

Neutrino<span>&reg;</span> IS Series
Neutrino® IS Series

HOT MWIR Camera Module + Continuous Zoom Lens

The ITAR-free Neutrino IS series combines Teledyne FLIR’s world-class mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) OEM camera modules and continuous zoom (CZ) lenses to offer high–performance imaging solutions with various FPA resolutions and CZ zoom/FOV ranges. Neutrino IS lowers development and manufacturing risk and improves time-to-market. Cutting-edge HOT FPAs, long life and low vibration linear coolers, common camera interfaces, and fully athermalized lenses make for the best-in-class solution. Each camera module and lens are designed for each other, providing optimal performance not achievable when buying and integrating cameras and lenses from multiple sources.

Teledyne FLIR Neutrino IS series is simply the best technical solution available. With nearly off-the-shelf delivery, industry-leading two-year warranty, real price competitiveness and well-known product support and product reliability, it offers the lowest risk solution. The Neutrino IS is an OEM camera module that is intended to be integrated into a higher level system.

Neutrino<span>&reg;</span> Ground ISR Series
Neutrino® Ground ISR Series

MWIR Camera Module + Continuous Zoom Lens

The Neutrino Ground ISR series provides turnkey solutions for integrators developing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems. The cameras combine Teledyne FLIR’s world-class mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) camera modules and continuous zoom (CZ) lenses with market-leading image processing and control electronics from InVeo Designs LLC. Each camera offers high-performance imaging, a reliable long-life linear cooler, and a low switching cost to upgrade existing systems. The factory-integrated and optimized MWIR imaging systems from a single source provide market-leading performance while reducing development risk, cost, and time to market.

They incorporate multiple focal plane array (FPA) resolutions and CZ lens options with industry standard image processing and interface electronics, allowing for differing detection recognition and identification (DRI) requirements and affordability. With four configurations today and more coming soon, the ITAR-free cameras provide the imaging performance required for short, mid, and long-range ISR, perimeter surveillance, border surveillance, and counter-UAS (CUAS) applications.

All Neutrino Ground ISR cameras can run Teledyne FLIR’s Prism™ AI detection, tracking, and classification models and Prism ISP libraries for super-resolution, turbulence mitigation, contrast enhancement, and more.

Neutrino<span>&reg;</span> LC OGI
Neutrino® LC OGI

SWaP Optimized MWIR Optical Gas Imaging Camera Module

The ITAR-free Neutrino LC OGI provides 640x512 VGA-resolution MWIR optical-gas-imaging (OGI) and is easily integrated into a wide range of solutions to detect, measure, and visualize gas emissions. Teledyne FLIR’s High Operating Temperature (HOT) FPA technology and linear micro-cooler provide integrators with the industry-best, two-year warranty and significantly longer endurance in the leading size, weight, and power (SWaP) module available today. Quick cool down and time-to-image combined with low-power and quiet, low-vibration operation make Neutrino LC OGI the choice for battery-powered handhelds, UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), small gimbals, and fixed-mounted gas leak detection systems within processing facilities, refineries, pipelines, tank farms, and well pads for the oil and gas industry.

Designed to meet EPA performance requirements, the narrow 3.3 µm infrared (IR) spectral band accurately detects hydrocarbons including methane, propane, butane, and other greenhouse gases and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The Neutrino LC OGI can be operated in VGA mode to maximize scene awareness or Bin mode to improve sensitivity to an industry-leading <20 mK. Backed by a standard two-year warranty and a professional technical support team for integration assistance, the Neutrino LC OGI is the lowest-risk and highest-performance OEM camera module for integrators developing methane monitoring and other gas imaging solutions today.

Neutrino<span>&reg;</span> SWaP Series
Neutrino® SWaP Series

SWaP+C Optimized HOT FPA MWIR Camera Module

The ITAR-free VGA-resolution Neutrino LC and SXGA-resolution Neutrino SX8 provide best-in-class MWIR imagery and data in a small, lightweight package. Based on Teledyne FLIR’s High Operating Temperature (HOT) FPA technology and linear micro-cooler, SWaP series OEM camera modules are designed for ruggedized products requiring long life, low-power consumption, and quiet, low-vibration operation. Both are ideal for small gimbals and airframes, handheld devices, security cameras, targeting devices, and asset monitoring applications.

The Neutrino SWaP Series is simply the best technical solution available. With nearly off-the-shelf delivery, industry-leading two-year warranty, real price competitiveness and well-known product support and product reliability, it also offers the lowest risk solution. The Neutrino SWaP is an OEM camera module that is intended to be integrated into a higher level system.

Neutrino<span>&reg;</span> Performance Series
Neutrino® Performance Series

High Resolution MWIR Camera Modules

The ITAR-free Neutrino Performance Series includes the FLIR Neutrino QX and SX12. Neutrino SX12 is a 1280×1024/12 µm resolution focal plane array (FPA) and has a frame rate of 120 Hz at 720P and >60 Hz for SXGA. Neutrino QX is a 2048×1536/10 µm FPA and has a frame rate of 60 Hz at 1080P and >30 Hz for QXGA.

Neutrino Performance Series is ideal for ground or airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), targeting, counter-UAS solutions and Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) applications. The industry-standard interfaces, simple and powerful software controls, complete product documentation and Teledyne FLIR technical support reduces product development risk and shortens time to market. The Neutrino is an OEM camera module that is intended to be integrated into a higher level system.

MWIR Zoom Lens Assemblies
MWIR Zoom Lens Assemblies

Lenses for Mid-Wave Infrared (MWIR) Cameras for 3-5 µm

Teledyne FLIR custom and off-the-shelf mid-wave infrared (MWIR) continuous zoom (CZ) optical assemblies and lenses are for integrators and operators who do not compromise on quality. All lens assemblies have near diffraction limited performance and include advanced features that ensure continuous focus through the zoom.

Formerly New England Optical Systems (NEOS) and now part of Teledyne FLIR, the world-class technical services team provides product support and can also develop new or customize existing lens assemblies for a camera, application, and mission. Designed to maximize infrared-camera performance, the MWIR CZ lens assemblies provide the competitive advantages required in the field and marketspace for a wide range of defense, security, and commercial applications.

Conservator
Conservator

DLM and Dataset Development Software

Conservator is a powerful cloud-based data lifecycle management (DLM) application that enables data scientists to quickly build image datasets and accelerate AI development. Conservator empowers distributed teams to input and curate raw data, create and manage ground-truth annotations, and track revisions on large-scale datasets. The platform provides an enterprise-grade, end-to-end solution for managing perception data for systems such as neural network-based object detectors.

AI development is further accelerated with access to the Teledyne FLIR library of more than a million thermal and visible annotations across a wide range of applications including automotive, defense, and security. Conservator Insights™, a local application, gives data scientists the ability to interactively explore model performance issues like false positives and missed detections.

This complete ecosystem provides the necessary tools to manage data and analyze model performance using reproducible, production-ready workflows. Conservator is an easy-to-use and cost-effective solution for perception engineers developing today’s AI imaging solutions.

FLIR AVP
FLIR AVP

SWaP-Optimized SOM for Prism

The AVP, a size, weight, and power (SWaP) optimized advanced video processor, provides best-in-class artificial intelligence performance for thermal infrared and visible camera perception systems. It incorporates the latest Qualcomm® QCS8550, the industry’s most advanced mobile processor system on chip (SoC) featuring up to 48 TOPS inference compute performance. The QCS8550 is part of Qualcomm’s Product Longevity Program, ensuring future-proof product stability.

The AVP is designed to efficiently run Teledyne FLIR Prism AI software providing detection, classification, and target tracking and Prism ISP algorithms including super resolution, image fusion, atmospheric turbulence removal, electronic stabilization, local-contrast enhancement, and noise reduction. Prism software runs efficiently on the AVP leveraging the available system on module (SoM) functions to provide critical edge AI capabilities for automotive, airborne, unmanned, counter-UAS (CUAS), perimeter security, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) applications.

Prism<span>&trade;</span> AI
Prism™ AI

Object Detection and Tracking Software Libraries

Prism AI is a collection of software libraries that enable classification, object detection, and object tracking operating on low-power embedded processors from Qualcomm and NVIDIA. The Teledyne FLIR perception software and powerful, efficient embedded processors enable developers to bring decision support and computational imaging to the edge.

Compatible with Teledyne FLIR market-leading thermal modules, including Boson®, Hadron™, and Neutrino®, Prism AI provides high-performance models trained on the world’s largest application-specific thermal image datasets. Perception software models are available for automotive, ground ISR, air-to-ground, and counter-drone applications.

Prism<span>&trade;</span> Development Kit for Qualcomm® RB5
Prism™ Development Kit for Qualcomm® RB5

Prism Software and IR Camera Evaluation Kit

The Prism Development Kit for Qualcomm RB5 enables system engineers to evaluate Prism ISP and Prism AI with the output of Teledyne FLIR’s Hadron™ thermal imaging camera modules. Prism ISP software includes image fusion, super resolution, turbulence mitigation, electronic imaging stabilization, 16-to-8-bit tone mapping, and local contrast enhancement (LCE). Prism AI features a mature perception software that includes object classification, object detection, object tracking, and fine-grained classification trained on the world’s largest thermal image data lake with over 5 million annotation assets.

The development kit includes Teledyne FLIR’s Hadron dual visible and thermal camera module, all necessary cables, and the Qualcomm Robotics RB5 QRB5165 system on chip (SoC), the most popular and efficient mobile processor for digital imaging, bringing unprecedented capabilities to Teledyne FLIR thermal camera module integrators.

Prism<span>&trade;</span> ISP
Prism™ ISP

Advanced Computational Image Processing Software

Prism ISP is a collection of image signal processing (ISP) software libraries that include super-resolution, electronic image stabilization, image fusion, turbulence mitigation, noise reduction, and more. Compiled to run on low-power embedded processors from Qualcomm and NVIDIA, enabling developers to bring computational imaging to the edge while improving performance, lowering development costs, and shortening time to market.

Prism ISP is compatible with Teledyne FLIR market-leading thermal cores including Boson®, Tau® 2, Hadron™, and Neutrino®. The ISP libraries enable integrators to leverage high-performance ISP algorithms that dramatically enhance the viewed image quality and AI capabilities of world-class infrared camera modules for defense, industrial, and commercial applications.

Prism<span>&trade;</span> SKR
Prism™ SKR

Automated Target Recognition, Tracking and Homing Software

Prism SKR provides precision Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) detection, identification, and tracking for autonomously guided weapon systems including loitering munitions, air launched effects (ALE), counter UAS systems (CUAS), low-cost missiles, and smart munitions. It utilizes an advanced algorithm pipeline with target search, target identification, target state estimation, and aim point localization.

Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can integrate Prism SKR at the edge on low-power embedded systems from NVIDIA® or on the Teledyne FLIR AVP, an advanced video processor system on module (SOM) based on the Qualcomm Dragonwing™ QCS8550. Boson® and Neutrino® infrared (IR) camera modules and integrator-selected visible cameras integrate seamlessly, providing machine and target state via a Weapon Open System Architecture (WOSA) compliant interface.

The Prism software ecosystem reduces development cost and risk with out-of-the-box compatibility with Prism Supervisor, which provides autonomous mission control and platform guidance. Prism AI software models leverage Teledyne FLIR’s six million visible and thermal annotations and can be expanded quickly using Prism AIMMGen synthetic dataset and model training tool chain to incorporate custom target lists. A complete Application Programming Interface (API) and Software Development Kit (SDK) is available for further customization and performance optimization.

Prism<span>&trade;</span> Supervisor
Prism™ Supervisor

Autonomous Mission Execution Software

Prism Supervisor advanced autonomy software enhances the capabilities of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). It seamlessly integrates drone autopilot flight control systems and real-time artificial intelligence (AI)-based observations at the edge to improve mission safety, efficiency, and performance. Prism Supervisor simplifies the operator experience with a user-friendly interface for mission planning, real-time mission visualization, and one-click start-to-finish execution. Mission planners are empowered with a flexible programming framework and SDK, allowing the creation of advanced behaviors and dynamic responses. High-level scripting capability enables custom, intricate mission scenarios, facilitating collaborative behaviors and synchronized mission execution among multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Prism Supervisor adapts in real-time, dynamically generating mission segments and flight plans on the fly, minimizing operator impact, and improving mission success.

Prism™ AIMMGen™
Prism™ AIMMGen™

Automated Synthetic Data Generation and AI Model Training Service

AIMMGen is a dual-use AI model generation service that enables the automated creation of AI models based on ITAR-free training datasets. It reduces cost and schedule, delivering high-quality data and/or models in days, not weeks, for defense, first-responders, and commercial applications.

It leverages Teledyne’s proprietary synthetic data generation toolchain that can generate millions of machine-learning-ready examples of military and civilian objects in various environments, weather, and spectral bands. By leveraging advanced graphics capabilities, AIMMGen can generate imagery for complex scenarios for autonomous vehicles or simulate current military objects that are nearly impossible to capture in the real-world. AIMMGen generates annotated synthetic image data in minutes, replacing weeks needed for hand labeled data.

AIMMGen’s model generation capability is made possible by a first-of-its-kind fully automated AI optimization system, which produces high-quality models without costly ML engineering. Optimization is run on in-house MLOps infrastructure and automated workflows that leverage decades of AI/ML expertise to generate high-quality object detection and recognition models. The models are then automatically validated on customer-provided test case data or by leveraging an extensive synthetic data lake.

Cost-effective development enables the release of new or updated models in as little as a few days in response to new task requirements, target classes, or conditions, future proofing the model as the mission evolves.