Welcome to ARGUS
ARGUS is a unified operations platform for search-and-rescue and tactical teams. It brings every tool an operator needs into a single browser console: live drone video, autonomous DJI-dock flights, moving-map 2D and photorealistic 3D situational awareness, AI-assisted detection, team chat and radio, mission planning, and after-action reporting.
What ARGUS does
- Live drone video from handheld Android operators or DJI docks, routed through TACLINK as regular room participants so every subscriber (operators, the AI agent, recording egress) sees the same streams with the same sub-second latency.
- DJI cloud dock control — pair a dock with a QR code, fly a pre-planned WPML mission, take manual DRC (Dock Remote Control) joystick, handle HMS alerts, manage FlySafe licenses, push firmware updates, and pull remote logs — all from the browser.
- 2D and 3D maps — pan and draw on a Google Maps 2D surface, switch to a full Cesium 3D globe with Google Photorealistic 3D tiles, or flip into the “tactical hologram” mode for a stylised vector-rendered view of the AO.
- AI detection — consume YOLO11 detections from our cloud agent via the same TACLINK room, subscribe to DJI’s on-aircraft AI target recognition (SEI bounding boxes), or run the built-in detection simulator for training.
- Mission planning — plan coverage patterns (grid, perimeter, nadir, oblique, spiral, mapping), export to DJI-compatible WPML KMZ, support multi-dock relay for long-range missions, and schedule recurring flights.
- Collaboration — Push-to-Talk half-duplex radio channels, text chat, tasks, checklists, flags, timeline and after-action replay — all synced live via TACLINK + Firestore.
- Security — per-operation E2E encryption for control-channel data, scoped Firestore rules, single-use signed URLs for media, and WHIP/RTMP stream keys that never leave the server unencrypted.
Who ARGUS is for
- Incident commanders running SAR or tactical operations from a command post.
- Drone pilots flying handhelds from an Android gateway or remote-operating DJI docks.
- Analysts / spotters watching streams, tagging flags, and authoring after-action reports.
- Administrators provisioning organisations, docks, firmware, and workflows.
How to read this manual
The sidebar groups features by the area of the app you’re working in. The Operation Console section explains the tile grid — the dashboard operators spend most of their time in. If you’re coming from a radio background, the PTT & comms page maps ARGUS channels to what you know.
If you just want to get something on screen as fast as possible, the UI tour takes under five minutes.
Browser and network requirements
- Chrome, Edge, or Firefox — latest stable. Safari 17+ works for most features but has limited TACLINK codec support; some AI-detection paths (RTCRtpScriptTransform) are Chromium-only.
- Camera + microphone permissions — required for PTT and local camera publishing.
- TACLINK-friendly network — outbound UDP on 443 is enough for the hosted TACLINK edge; a TURN relay is always available as a fallback.
- 1080p60 display recommended for the operation console; the tile grid adapts to 1366×768 but dense layouts compress at that size.