SAR, Coastguard and Maritime Safety
Optics for saving lives, civil emergencies and accident prevention.
Our range of Pulsar thermal and ANV Gen3+ NVG meet the demands of time-critical SAR and Coastguard operations, and marine safety.
- Spotting people and vessels from land, water and air
- Marine navigation and overboard emergencies.
Our optics are chosen by the following SAR organisations:
- Coastguard New Zealand
- LandSAR New Zealand
- RNZAF Search and Rescue
- New Zealand Search and Rescue
- New Zealand Police
- Philips Search and Rescue Trust.
Thermal Imaging
A Pulsar thermal imager can spot persons and warm objects at long distance, is able to see through rain, mist, seaspray and light foliage.
Our product range covers optics with a variety of magnifications, field-of-view, resolution and sensitivity, each of which is suited to different tasks. It is important to evaluate a selection of devices to ensure fit-for-purpose performance.
Unlike a fixed gimbal thermal system, a Pulsar hand-held thermal imager is quicker to deploy and has higher performance, field-of-view, resolution and mist penetration. This is vital for person-overboard emergencies when time is critical.
The most chosen devices tend to have a low – medium magnification, suitable for boat and helicopter use. If searching from land or helicopters at a higher altitude, a higher magnification would increase distance performance. Our demonstration kits have a selection of devices that will help with decision making.
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Pulsar Lexion
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Pulsar Telos
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Pulsar Merger
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Multispectral Imaging
Multi-spectral imaging combines the advantages of LWIR thermal imaging with Visible light/NIR night vision. Thermal imaging forms an image with radiated heat, whilst night vision amplifies reflected light and faint light sources that are invisible to thermal.
For example, navigation beacons and strobes emit very little heat, but the emitted light be seen with night vision. Thermal cannot see light and night vision cannot see heat, Combining both technologies improves detection and identification.
Night vision also improves detection of floating objects that become invisible to a thermal imaging system during the ‘thermal blindness’ period, when an object’s heat emission is in a transitory state with little or no temperature difference to its surroundings.
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Pulsar Merger Duo NXP50
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Night Vision Goggles
ANV Generation 3+ night vision (AKA Commercial Gen4) is suitable for navigating vessels in harbours and inshore areas.
Night vision forms an image with reflected light in the same way as our eyes. It is unaffected by ‘thermal blindness’ (when an object’s heat emission is in a transitory state, with little or no temperature difference to its surroundings), improving the visibility of floating objects, structures and surface debris.
High light amplification enables use during dark moonless nights and the spotting of navigation beacons, lifejacket strobes and other light sources at extreme distance.
ANV Gen3+ Night Vision Goggles
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Daylight Optics
Our Yukon binocular range includes poor-prism and roof-prism binoculars with fully-multicoated, precision ground optics. Available with a range of magnifications and field-of-view.
Yukon Point IPx7 waterproof roofprism binoculars
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Yukon Solaris IPx6 water-resistant poroprism binoculars
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We have demonstration sets available for Coastguard and SAR.
Contact us to discuss your requirements 03 9700 570.
