Imagine an affordable city-mapping LIDAR system with an industry-leading 1.0 MHz pulse rate, capable of meeting your specialized needs now, and that is easily upgradable to a full-capability configuration as your business grows.
Imagine producing high density point clouds for corridor, urban, flood plain or general-purpose airborne mapping in a fraction of the time it took previously.
Imagine being able to perform wide-area mapping from high altitudes to obtain nearly 8 km swath.
The Leica ALS80 is a single family of systems that offers this level of flexibility and productivity, without compromising on quality and accuracy. Three models, Leica ALS80-CM, Leica ALS80-HP and Leica ALS80-HA, share a common platform (high-performance laser, scanner, range counting electronics, position/attitude measurement subsystem and user interface, flight planning and execution software), to create a range of laser scanners designed to meet the varied needs of the airborne survey market.
Two Laser Scanner configurations and two System Controller configurations are combined to create the three models in the Leica ALS80 range:
Leica ALS80-CM is designed for city and corridor mapping applications from lower flying heights. Ultra-high-density can be achieved by flying in small aircraft or mounted in helicopter pods, taking advantage of the low-profile scanner.
Leica ALS80-HP is designed for general purpose mapping at the flying heights most widely used, and can accommodate greater terrain relief due to its higher maximum flying height.
Leica ALS80-HA is a high-altitude variant, allowing the market's highest flying heights, for wide-area mapping on a state or national level.
Leica ALS80-CM and Leica ALS80-HP models also feature a unique multiple-output scanning system. This new scanning approach allows the system to double the pulse rate and scan rate of single-output systems, without the use of multiple scanner assemblies or lasers. The elegance of this implementation adds to the stability and consistency of the high-point-density data product delivered by the system, without increasing the complexity of system control
Planning for all Leica ALS80 models is accommodated using Leica MissionPro planning and evaluation software, including optimizing both system settings as well as flight line layout. The intuitive AeroPlan pull-down menu allows manual or automated optimization of system settings in three ways:
Post-flight data processing uses NovAtel Inertial Explorer for GNSS/IMU data reduction and Leica CloudPro for generation of the point cloud. NovAtel Inertial Explorer utilizes "tightly-coupled" GNSS/IMU data processing to allow full trajectory accuracy, even when satellites are temporarily obscured, reducing the need for inefficient and lengthy low-bank-angle turns from one flight line to the next.
Leica CloudPro provides multi-threaded processing for reduced processing time and a command-line interface compatible with GeoCue job management software or your custom workflows. And the included Leica AHAB LSS Viewer allow simple, fast viewing and measurements to be made in the produced data set.
Leica ALS80-CM and Leica ALS80-HP systems achieve industry-leading measurements rates of 1.0 MHz, reducing on-line flying time by up to 50 % over the previous generation of systems. Leica ALS80-HA offers an extended flying height with scan rates appropriate for wide-area data acquisition.
Leica ALS80 accommodates operation with up to 6PiA operation (5PiA for Leica ALS80-CM), carrying high pulse rates to even greater flying heights.
Whether you want to capture airborne data of an agricultural area or of a city, record the challenges in a disaster area or the expanse of a high tension line, you need reliable measurements and solutions for your entire workflow to build image-based maps. Leica Geosystems' broad array of airborne sensors and integrated software solutions capture data efficiently, reference imagery accurately, measure easily, analyze and present.