Airborne Law Enforcement

ION provides airborne law enforcement with a flexible, high-definition geospatial video recorder packaged into a compact and easy to use unit. Backed by SHOTOVER’s industry-leading mission management systems currently in use on over 250 airborne law enforcement platforms worldwide, ION was built with your mission in mind.

• Never miss the action with ION’s built-in recording buffer that allows you to capture up to a minute of footage prior to pressing the record button.
• Automatically trigger recordings based on events such as skids-off or hoist cam activation. 
• Use inexpensive SD or USB memory to capture hours of HD quality video with metadata.
• See what is being recorded as it is captured with ION’s 2.15 in [54.61 mm] diagonal, full-color, night vision compliant display.

Expandable and Flexible

Do more with your mission recorder — Supported integrations and upgrades* include:

• Add AIS/ADS-B/AVL information into the Metadata/VANC stream being recorded (specific receiver is required and not included)
• Custom symbology – PIP views, custom watermarks, masking symbology
• Moving maps – Display open street maps, aeronautical, and topo maps on any compatible cockpit display
• Display weather radar on any compatible cockpit display
• Generate Reaper/Predator/Grey Eagle/Shadow/Scan Eagle symbology overlays

*Upgrades features may carry additional cost and/or require additional hardware. Please contact us for details.

Utility inspection

ION 2 provides utility inspection operators with a full-featured, HD video recorder with the ability to simultaneously record multiple channels of video, audio, and metadata in one, compact, easy-to-use unit. Operators can overlay the locations of pipelines, power lines, and more on live video and easily mark locations of interest in the recorded video.

ION is built on the foundation of our industry-leading airborne mission management systems. Currently used in over 250 airborne platforms worldwide, every one of SHOTOVER’s products are backed by a company that understands your mission.

• Mark GPS locations of interest during patrols.
• Use inexpensive SD or USB memory to capture hours of HD quality video with metadata.
• Never miss the action – ION 2 configurable record buffer captures video prior to the record button being pressed.
• Playback and review while recording. See something and want a closer look? Pause and replay while you are still recording.
• Designed to work with any video source or gimbal.
• Capture recordings with GPS position information that can be integrated with Earthscape.com.
• Use ION to output video to any compatible cockpit display. Show active recordings, playback and review video, display moving maps, etc. 

ION 2: Cost Savings and Convenience for Range Operations

Looking for an all-digital, geospatial video recorder for range surveillance & recording? ION 2 is the ideal video recorder for operation that require accurate, time-stamped video with embedded telemetric and positional metadata. Record multiple channels of HD video using inexpensive, consumer grade recordable media. Reliable and customizable, ION can replace aging analog equipment with a compact, digital solution.

• Completely eliminate the need for videotape and expensive P2 cards. Instead, use inexpensive SD or USB memory to capture hours of HD quality video with metadata.
• Record video from MWIR and SWIR cameras with full support for Camera Link interface standard.
• Automatically embed IRIG-B time code data directly into the video files.
• Playback and review while recording. See something and want a closer look? Pause and replay while you are still recording.
• Built-in support for 1PPS input from any GPS source.
• Because installation requirements can vary, contact us for a detailed price quote.

Camera Link Compatible Recorder

Add full support for an incredible range of Camera Link interface cameras.  Whether you are recording SWIR, MWIR, LWIR, or high-resolution or high-frame rate video, the Camera Link interface for ION will provide a tremendous amount of capability at very little cost.  When connected to an IMU, you can produce a MISB/STANAG 4609 compliant recording or live stream — and when connected to a pan/tilt unit, the ION 2 can respond to CoT messages and slew your Camera Link sensor to the location of interest.

ION 2 gives operators the ability to simultaneously record multiple channels of video, audio, and metadata in one, easy-to-use unit.

• Completely eliminate the need for videotape and expensive P2 cards.
• Use inexpensive SD or USB memory to capture hours of HD quality video with metadata.
• Record video from MWIR and SWIR cameras with full support for Camera Link interface standard.
• Playback and review while recording. See something and want a closer look? Pause and replay while you are still recording.
• Automatically capture metadata and time stamps embedded in the recorded video.
• Because installation requirements vary, please contact us for a detailed quote.