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  • RIEGL Launches BathyCopter UAV with Lidar

    RIEGL Launches BathyCopter UAV with Lidar

    CEO Johannes Riegl unveils the new RIEGL BathyCopter at the Riegl INTERGEO booth in Stuttgart.
    CEO Johannes Riegl unveils the new RIEGL BathyCopter at the Riegl INTERGEO booth in Stuttgart.

    Following RIEGL‘s debut of the RiCOPTER at INTERGEO 2014, a fully integrated UAV-based lidar surveying solution, the company used INTERGEO 2015 in September to launch its new BathyCopter.

    The BathyCopter is a small-UAV-based surveying system capable of measuring through the water surface. It’s suitable for generating profiles of rivers or water reservoirs. The platform design integrates a topo-bathymetric green laser depth-meter, an IMU/GNSS unit with antenna, a control unit and a digital camera. Applications include generation of river profiles, survey of reservoirs and canals, landscaping, support of construction projects, and surveys for planning and carrying out hydraulic engineering work.

    Laser Scanner. RIEGL also offers the VQ-480-U laser scanner for UAVs, which provides high-speed data acquisition using a narrow infrared laser beam and a fast line scanning mechanism.

    High-accuracy laser ranging is based on RIEGL’s echo digitization and online waveform processing, which provides measurement results even under adverse atmospheric conditions, the company said.

  • Riegl Launches RiCopter UAV at InterGeo

    At InterGeo 2014, James Van Rens, chief executive officer of Riegl, explains the launch of the RiCopter UAV with LiDAR integration, and its designer gives a live demonstration of the UAV in flight. The show was held October 7-9 in Berlin.

    The unmanned aerial vehicle is a survey-grade unmanned scanning platform for a variety of demanding applications, such as corridor, power line, or railway mapping.

    The high-performance UAV can be equipped with the Riegl VUX-1 survey-grade LiDAR sensor to offer a fully integrated turnkey solution. The RiCopter platform design includes a fully integrated Riegl VUX LiDAR sensor, IMU/ GNSS unit with antenna, control unit, and up to four optional cameras providing measuring characteristics of a 330-degree field of view, 500,000 measurements per second, and 10-millimeter accuracy.

    The class 1 unmanned aircraft system can be flown at a maximum operating altitude of 550 meters with a maximum take-off mass of up to 25 kg and a maximum payload of 16 kg, providing a long flight endurance of 30 minutes.

    RiCopter flight characteristics are smooth and stable in hovering positions, as well as on demanding flight maneuvers under challenging conditions.

    See more InterGeo videos at GPS World’s YouTube Channel.

    Another video of the RiCopter in action comes from Riegl: