Vector
About
About Vector
Vision Aerial Vector is a professional hexacopter for inspection, surveying and public-safety missions. Its six-rotor architecture provides redundant lift and carries up to five kilograms. Stated flight time is 40 minutes, range is 20 kilometres and batteries can be exchanged in about 25 seconds.
Field-swappable payload mounts let operators change sensors without tools, while vibration damping supports imaging and measurement equipment. Folding arms and retractable landing gear reduce transport volume, with case-to-air setup under two minutes. The Vector record covers this six-rotor platform and remains separate from Vision Aerial's smaller SwitchBlade-Elite tricopter.
Capabilities
Source-backed capabilities
- Operating environments: Experimental potato plots at the Montana State BART farm
- Aerial imaging
Research demonstration - 2023-07-12 - Captured hyperspectral images of experimental potato plots with a mounted Resonon Pika L camera. - environment: Experimental potato plots at the Montana State BART farm
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Observed use
Exact-product configurations are shown without inferring supply, purchase, customer status, standard fit, deployment or partnership.
- Resonon Pika L hyperspectral imaging payload
2023-07-12 - Research Experiment - Mounted - Physical - Vector carried a Resonon Pika L hyperspectral camera over Montana State potato plots, with an Ellipse 3D GNSS/IMU and downwelling irradiance sensor.
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Research
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Hyperspectral Imaging for Potato Virus Y Detection: Machine Learning Insights
2025-05-15 - Research Publication - Montana State University researchers evaluate machine-learning methods for detecting Potato Virus Y from UAV-acquired hyperspectral imagery. A Vision Aerial Vector carried a Resonon Pika L camera over experimental potato plots; disease labels were checked with laboratory assays.
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Resources
Curated durable documents and official technical references.
- Vector 2.5 flight manual, Rev F.0
PDF · Mark 2.5 setup, operation and servicing · Vision Aerial
Source - Vector 2.2 technical sheet (historical)
PDF · Earlier 2.2 configuration · Vision Aerial
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Context
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