VQ-580II-S

Waveform Processing Airborne Laser Scanning System with Increased Range Capacity

To meet the increasing requirements of compact laser scanners for medium- and wide-area mapping as well as for corridor mapping, RIEGL now offers the VQ-580 II-S. The successor of the well-proven VQ-580 II Airborne Laser Scanner provides an increased maximum measurement range of up to 2.450 m.

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To meet the increasing requirements of compact laser scanners for medium- and wide-area mapping as well as for corridor mapping, RIEGL now offers the VQ-580 II-S. The successor of the well-proven VQ-580 II Airborne Laser Scanner provides an increased maximum measurement range of up to 2.450 m. It is perfectly suited for integration with gyro-stabilized mounts as well as into the VQX-1 Wing Pod, RIEGL’s fully integrated laser scanning system for user-friendly installation on Cessna single piston engine aircraft to facilitate various airborne mapping applications.

The device‘s lightweight and clean design allows seamless integration into stabilized platforms or even small hatches and enables the efficient acquisition of high-quality data for a variety of applications from a wide range of manned aircraft such as helicopters, small fixed-wing aircraft and ultralight aircraft.

Based on RIEGL‘s proven Waveform-LiDAR technology, the VQ-580 II-S provides highly accurate and precise point clouds, excellent vertical target resolution, calibrated reflectance readings, and pulse shape deviation for unsurpassed information content on every single measurement. With a measurement rate of up to 1,250,000 meals./sec and an extremely wide field of view of 75 degrees, the instrument is versatile and perfectly meets the challenges in various special airborne surveying applications like corridor mapping, city modelling, agriculture, and forestry. Due to the laser wavelength used, the system enables measurements to wet and frozen surfaces and delivers first-class results in snowfield mapping and glacier monitoring.

The RIEGL VQ-580I I-S provides mechanical and electrical interfaces for the integration with an appropriate IMU/GNSS unit and is ready for controlling up to 5 optional cameras. Convenient access to the acquired scan data is ensured by data storage on an easy to remove CFast® storage card and an integrated Solid State Disk, but also by streaming scan data via a LAN TCP/IP interface.

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Specifications

General: Year of introduction

2022

Total Weight [kg]

10.5

Power requirements

18-34 V DC, 140 W

Type of GNSS/INS positioning system

optional

Camera

optional

Data storage facilities

Solid State Disc SSD, 2 TB; Cardholder for CFAST storage cards

Mission planning software

RiPARAMETER,IGI Plan; TrackAir; or similar

Postprocessing software

RiMTA ALS, RiACQUIRE, RiPROCESS, RiWORLD

Application: Main applications

Medium to Wide Area Mapping • Corridor Mapping • City Modeling • Glacier and Snowfield Monitoring • Agriculture & Forestry

Measurement Characteristics: Scanning method

rotating polygon mirror

Min. pulse frequency [Hz]

300000

Max. pulse frequency [Hz]

2000000

Max. field of view [deg]

78

Max. number of recorded echoes per pulse

15

Full-wave form digitization

Y

multiple pulses in air

Y

Operation Characteristics: Platform

Helicopter, Fixed-wing, Gyroplane

Min. flying height [m]

20

Max. flying height [m]

2450

Laser Pulse Characteristics: Beam divergence [mrad]

0.28

Type/class laser

3B

More information: Distinguishable features

increased measurement range of up to 2.450 m • high accuracy ranging based on RIEGL Waveform-LiDAR technology • high laser pulse repetition rate up to 2MHz • measurement rate up to 1,250,000 measurements/sec • perfectly linear and parallel scan lines • wide field of view of 75° • excellently suited to measure to snow & ice • interfaces for up to 5 optional cameras • mechanical and electrical interface for IMU/GNSS integration • removeable storage card and integrated Solid State Disk (SSD) for data storage • compact and lightweight design • compatible with stabilized platforms and even small hatches • seamless integration and compatibility with other RIEGL ALS systems and software packages