Airborne Products

Scanner Applications

Airborne Scanner Guide

Airborne 3D Laser Scanners

Airborne laser scanning is a rapid, highly accurate and efficient method to generate data of large areas, industrial plants, entire urban areas, and more. Typical applications are:

• Topography & Corridor Mapping
• City Modeling
• Street Mapping, Railroad Mapping
• Mapping of Lakesides and River Banks
• Flood Management
• Agricultural and Forestry Applications

RIEGL offers three powerful airborne scanners:

The LMS-Q160 is a compact and extremely lightweight 2D scanning laser radar optimized for detecting even low-cross-section targets such as wires, think branches, etc.

The LMS-Q240i is extremely rugged, therefore ideally suited for the installation on board of an aircraft, and also compact and lightweight enough to be used under narrow space conditions (e.g. in small single-engine planes, helicopters or on other vehicles).

The "Full Waveform Digitizing & Analyzing" airborne laser scanner LMS-Q560, available with a Laser PRR of up to 240 kHz and an effective measurement rate of up to 160.000 points/sec, the key component of a variety of airborne scanner systems up to the 'turn-key" solution Diamond DA42 MPP, a modern twin engine fixed wing plane with completely integrated, tested and calibrated RIEGL airborne scanning system. Unbeatable technology that demonstrates once more RIEGL's leading position in innovation.

The new long-range RIEGL LMS-Q680 airborne laser scanner makes use of a powerful laser source and of RIEGL’s proprietary digital full waveform processing. This combination allows the operation at high flight altitudes and is therefore ideally suited for aerial survey of complex terrain.

The new RIEGL VQ-480 Airborne Laser Scanner provides high speed, non-contact data acquisition using narrow infrared laser beam and a fast line scanning mechanism. High-accuracy laser ranging is based on RIEGL´s unique echo digitization and online waveform analysis, which allows achieving superior measurement results even under adverse atmospheric conditions, and the evaluation of multiple target echoes. The scanning mechanism is based on a fast rotating multi-facet polygonal mirror, which provides fully linear, unidirectional and parallel scan lines.

Data Sheets

Download data sheets for our terrestrial scanners by selecting your model in the drop down below:

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