Meet Pegasus™
Seamless Panoramic Sensing for cUAS and Persistent Awareness
Drone threats are everywhere.
Annular camera for long-range object detection and tracking. Ideal for on-drone DAA for BVLOS or ground-based C-UAS missions.
Circle Optics builds seamless panoramic cameras that watch every direction at once, giving units affordable, persistent drone detection and cueing. More troops can see threats sooner and stay protected in the field.
Seamless
Persistent
Actionable
THE PROBLEM
The Cost of Stitching Multiple Cameras
Six 4K cameras generate approximately 50 megapixels every frame. At 30 fps, that is approximately 1.5 gigapixels every second before detection, display, compression, or cueing.
Pixel Tax
- Five internal seams must be managed across a six camera array.
- 25–35% overlap can reduce useful scene density from approximately 70 PPD to 45–53 PPD.
- Redundant seam pixels move through the system every frame but do not add new information.
Processing Tax
- 25–35% overlap means approximately 373–523 megapixels per second of seam imagery to register, warp, and blend.
- Seam processing consumes memory bandwidth and accelerator cycles before detection or tracking begins.
- Real time stitching typically adds tens to hundreds of milliseconds for synchronization, registration, warping, blending, and buffering.
In cUAS, seam latency is not simply video delay. It is time taken away from gimbal slew, recognition, identification, and rules of engagement decision making.
Pegasus Advantage
Pegasus turns six 4K sensors into one seamless 180° panoramic output at approximately 70 pixels per degree, preserving more useful pixels while reducing seam processing latency.
Drone threats are everywhere.
Annular camera for long-range object detection and tracking. Ideal for on-drone DAA for BVLOS or ground-based C-UAS missions.
Circle Optics builds seamless panoramic cameras that watch every direction at once, giving units affordable, persistent drone detection and cueing. More troops can see threats sooner and stay protected in the field.
ARCHITECTURE COMPARISON
Conventional Separated Feeds
- 🔴 Operator watches six windows.
- 🔴 Low fusion compute and high human burden.
- 🔴 Low video delay but slow interpretation.
- 🔴 Gaps or redundant sectors.
- 🔴 Track handoff at camera edges.
- 🔴 Operator must interpret and cue.
Software Stitched Multi Camera Arrays
- 🟡 One view, but seams require trust checks.
- 🔴 Stitching consumes seam processing resources.
- 🟡 Synchronization, optical flow, warping, blending, and buffering.
- 🟡 25–35% overlap reduces useful pixels per degree.
- 🟡 Risk of split or duplicate tracks.
- 🟡 Cueing can lag behind the stitching pipeline.
Pegasus Seamless Panoramic Video
- 🟢 One continuous sky picture.
- 🟢 Compute reserved for detection, tracking, and cueing.
- 🟢 Lower latency to gimbal cue.
- 🟢 Approximately 70 PPD dedicated to scene coverage.
- 🟢 One continuous track across seams.
- 🟢 Detect, track, and cue from one frame.
Circle Optics Advantage
WHAT SEAMLESS COVERAGE PROVIDES
Track Continuity
A drone crossing a sensor boundary remains one object in one scene rather than being handed between disconnected camera feeds.
Better Gimbal Handoff
Cue the gimbal directly from one panoramic coordinate frame instead of reconciling multiple camera windows.
More Useful Edge Compute
Less real time stitching leaves more compute available for detection, tracking, compression, networking, and cUAS integration.
Faster Decisions
Operators see one continuous sky picture instead of mentally stitching multiple feeds together during a seconds long cUAS event.
Continuous panoramic video gives operators one scene instead of many disconnected feeds.
FROM PANORAMIC AWARENESS TO cUAS ACTION
Pegasus in the cUAS Kill Chain
Illustrative case: A one-foot hostile small UAS inbound at approximately 100 miles per hour.
Detect
~600 m/ ~13 sec
Track
Custody Maintained
Cue
~500-400 m / ~11-9 sec
Gimbal ID
~300-150 m / ~7-3 sec
ROE
Operator-supervised
Respond
Final seconds / <150 m
At approximately 70 pixels per degree, the target is roughly two pixels across, enough for candidate detection and cueing but not final identification.
~600 m Candidate Detection
~300-150 m gimbal ID window
Final Seconds: ROE + response
Pegasus™ Deployment Segments & Markets
Battalion-level cUAS
Organic panoramic detection and cueing for maneuver units that cannot rely on exquisite fixed-site sensors.
Mobile & convoy protection
All-direction local air watch for units on the move, with gimbal cueing from one continuous scene.
Fixed-site perimeter defense
Persistent optical custody around high-value sites, extending awareness across perimeter approaches.
Forward operating bases and temporary sites
Rapidly deployable sensing for expeditionary locations where drone threats appear before infrastructure does.
Critical infrastructure and airports
Wide-area visual awareness for drone detection, incident response, and security operations.
Maritime / port / border security
Continuous horizon and perimeter monitoring where missing a sector creates operational risk.
Download the Pegasus Product Spec Sheet