Ascendent Technology Group Inc.

Technologies and Products offer by Ascendent


Long Range IR Night Vision with ZLID Laser IR Illumination
Standard surveillance cameras all use visible light 400~700nm. In order to produce images they need a lot of light to work. Due to this, Ascendent offers a number of technologies and camera systems that allow you to see in complete darkness without any light. Ascendent camera systems uses Thermal, SWIR and Laser illumination to provide clean crisp image in even the most difficult conditions such as complete darkness, haze, smoke, rain, snow, and even bright light. Ascendent takes full advantage of these technologies and design multi sensor systems and offer camera solutions that detect objects at over 20 miles (30km) in complete darkness. This is ideal for mission critical applications such as ports and harbor authorities and military logistics.

Ultra-Sensitive star light Color Night vision Cameras
Ascendent’s ultra-sensitive visible cameras offer significant advantages over thermal imaging by producing images with up to 800% higher resolution with real time performance at a full 1080P. As mentioned above visible cameras require light in order to reproduce an image which is not a problem by day but can render them useless at night. Ascendent has developed ultra-sensitive cameras that work on both IR and visible light (700nm~1100nm) to provide detail rich color images by day and clean crisp black and white images by night. Often times especially in urban environments an illuminator is not necessary due to their superior sensitivity that render color images in with just ¼ the amount starlight glow and monochrome images in 2 milli-lux. Unlike EMCCD and intensifier cameras Ascendents camera have excellent anti blooming properties that provide high contrast images even in the presence of bright light sources. And since they do not artificially enhance light do they do not have streaking issues when there is motion as they maintain a high frame rate. These cameras also offer many advantages over thermal imaging as they produce much higher resolution, capture details such as facial features rather than heat blobs and have the ability to see through windows and other optically pure substances at night. In short, unlike thermal cameras that use heat and can only be used for detection and knowing the rough size of an object, Ascendants Visible cameras not only provide detection but also the ability to actually identify an object.

Active IR ZLID Laser illumination
For application that do occasionally get complete darkness due to color cover or other environmental applications, Ascendent has developed its ZLID laser illuminators. Ascendent’s ZLID illuminators combine laser diode technology with precision engineered optics and sophisticated electronics to provide extreme long range Active IR illumination. There are many companies who offer laser illumination but none compare with the performance ZLID as they use standard lasers that do not give a consistent uniform light which causes speckle and creates a very noisy image often worse than intensified or EMCCD cameras. Many laser illuminators only illuminate the center of the screen and act as a spot beam that over exposes the middle of the image and leaves the edges dark. These images often provide little more detail than a standard thermal camera. Ascendent's ZLID (Zoom Laser IR Diodes) Technology (IR Laser) synchronizes IR intensity and area illumination with motorized zoom lens for outstanding active IR performance, eliminating overexposure, washout, and hot-spots for unparalleled performance at distances up to 5km (16,400ft) in complete darkness.

Multi-Sensor IR and Optical Camera systems
They are many competent manufactures of thermal and visible cameras but often they are only skilled at one of them and push their customers into either thermal or visible. Ascendent is highly experienced and has implemented a host of camera technologies that include but not limited to Visible, Thermal, Active IR, Range Gated, SWIR, Starlight, cooled thermal. Ascendent designs and manufactures multi sensor systems to leverage the benefit of all of these technologies into integrated camera systems that operate as one unfiled system. Ascendent custom builds cameras to suite the individual needs of our customers and has proud and rich history of being the premiere manufacture for night vision electro-optics.

Available Options


Multi Axis active Gyro Stabilization
Ascendent’s cameras can be equipped with state-of-the-art 2-5 axis gyro gimbals that keeps the sensors firmly stabilized to 1 rms at frequencies up to 5htrz, giving you clear images without degradation typically caused by rough seas, swaying, thus making it ideal for ground, marine and aerial applications. “Slew to Cue” Radar Integration: A superbly effective and strategic solution uses radars in tandem with pan and tilt imagers (visible CCD and thermal) and software technology to automate many of the critical challenges that the security force faces. This solution automatically detects and tracks moving objects and positions the camera to focus on the object. If the tracked object moves into a blind spot or out of a camera’s view, it will be picked up automatically by another camera and tracking will continue seamlessly. Auto

Auto Tracking PTZ Camera and Slew to Cue Radar
Ascendent cameras systems can be ordered with built-in auto tracking option. This allows the camera to track a moving object or automatically without any manual operation or any operator intervention. Upon detection of motion in the image, the PTZ camera is positioned on the detected object and tracks it automatically. Since many of Ascendent’s camera solutions are multi-sensor and fitted with a variety of optics with both wide angle view to provide situational awareness and then a zoom in to capture details for identification and recognition. The Auto tracking module can be used in tandem with the slew to cue to provide a full 360 degree panoramic autonomous surveillance system with the ability for manual override if desired making ideal for homeland defense and coastal surveillance.

Range Finder + GPS for target acquisition
Precise Target Measurement & Localization
Ascendent system can be built with a LRF Laser range finder that is eye safe and pulses light at 1,550 nanometers to give real time measurements of a target. Because it operates a 1550nm it is stealth in that it will not be detected by other night vision devices such as thermal and image intensifiers. It can also be order with a digital magnetic compass (DMC) and GPS module it gives the exact GPS coordinates of the target and has an effective distance up to 30km.

Intelligent Video Analytics
AVA or Ascendent Video Analytics is our video analytics software suite, AVA allows you to intelligently track object such as people, vehicles, etc. AVA software can be configured to count people and vehicles crossing a predetermined point, and in which direction they are moving. Size and speed of objects can be calculated and saved, unattended objects can set off alarms after a specified period of time. AVA eliminates the complicated setup associated with other video-analytics software, which can have as many as 100 algorithm setup parameters for aspects such as digital filters or adjusting for various lighting conditions. In contrast, Ascendents analytics has no algorithm parameters; instead, it automatically adjusts to the conditions it encounters. AVA can also be used on existing cameras to turn it into an intelligent, information-gathering device. Systems equipped in this way can perform intelligent analysis of motion with application areas including intrusion detection, vehicle monitoring, abandoned-object detection, people counting, and loitering detection, as well as camera tampering and failure detection. Ascendent is thereby able to provide very sophisticated video analytics that upgraded existing cameras into intelligent homogenous security solutions that operates automatically and autonomously.

Ascendent Specializes in high end surveillance equipment, such Thermal Infrared, Cooled and Uncooled IR Camera and Sensors.

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Ascendent also does SWIR, LWIR and MWIR sensors and integrates these with visible

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Contact:
Website: www.ascendentgroup.com
Email: tim@ascendentgroup.com
Skype: tim.ascendent