RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems presented a display of new solutions at the Intergeo exhibition in Berlin from October 7-9. Chief amongst the updates was the release of the RiCOPTER. RIEGL is the first major LiDAR manufacturer to develop its own unmanned aerial system. The RiCOPTER is a high-performance UAV equipped with the RIEGL VUX-1 survey-grade LiDAR sensor to offer a fully integrated turnkey solution.

The RIEGL booth showed the VUX-1 integrated into several other UAS systems, such as SARAH by Flying-Cam and the Aeroscouts UAS, demonstrating the versatility of the instrument. RIEGL also launched a brand new airborne LiDAR system, the VQ-880-G, a fully integrated turnkey LiDAR solution for topo-bathymetric surveying applications.

On the terrestrial side, RIEGL is adding a new terrestrial laser scanner to its portfolio. The VZ-2000 is RIEGL’s fastest terrestrial laser scanner. It comes with a 1MHz pulse repetition rate and up to 400,000 effective measurements per second, with range performance of more than 2,000 m. The VZ-2000 is a good surveying tool for both static as well as mobile mapping with the VMZ hybrid mobile mapping solution. In addition to all of the new RIEGL hardware at Intergeo, there were also several software introductions. RIEGL is releasing the RiSCAN PRO 2.0, a major update to RiSCAN PRO with significant improvements and new 64-bit architecture.