This report describes an airborne reconfigurable measurement system being developed at FOI Sensor Technology. The design goal is to emulate a UAV-mounted sensor gimbal using a stand-alone system. The minimal configuration of the system consists of a gyro-stabilized gimbal with IR and CCD sensors and an integrated high-performance navigation system. The navigation system combines dGPS realtime kinematics (RTK) data with data from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) fixed mounted with reference to the optical sensors. The gimbal is to be used as an experimental geo-referenced sensor platform, using a choice of carriers, to produce military relevant image sequences for studies of image processing on moving surveillance and reconnaissance platforms. An image processing oriented sensor management architecture for airborne IR/EO-surveillance is presented. Some UAV applications that can be realized with the system are presented.