In The News: RIEGL’s Airborne Bathymetric LiDAR – Revolutionizing Hydrographic Surveying
The following article by Janowski, Tysiąc, and Mandlburger provides a comprehensive understanding of Bathymetric technology, detailing its applications and benefits.
In their insightful article on Hydro International, Łukasz Janowski, Paweł Tysiąc, and Gottfried Mandlburger delve into the immense potential of airborne bathymetric LiDAR and RIEGL technology to revolutionize hydrographic surveying. They explore its applications in coastal zone management, floodplain analysis, and navigation safety, underscoring its indispensability in modern hydrographic surveys.
RIEGL is proud to highlight the transformative technological capabilities of the VQ-840-G airborne bathymetric LiDAR system, which is setting new standards in hydrographic surveying. Utilizing a pulsed green laser, our systems penetrate water surfaces to deliver precise data on underwater terrain, essential for environmental management, infrastructure planning, and disaster preparedness.
Our advanced LiDAR technology ensures minimal absorption and scattering in clear water, enabling accurate measurement of submerged features. The integration of a laser scanner, GNSS, and IMU in our systems guarantees high-resolution, geospatially accurate datasets.
Benefits of RIEGL Airborne Bathymetric LiDAR Technology:
- High-Resolution Data: Provides highly detailed and accurate maps of underwater topography, essential for various applications.
- Efficiency and Speed: Covers large areas quickly, making it more efficient than traditional survey methods.
- Versatility: Useful in coastal zone management, floodplain analysis, habitat mapping, navigation safety, infrastructure planning, and disaster preparedness.
- Penetration of Water Surfaces: Uses a green laser to penetrate water surfaces effectively, allowing accurate measurement of submerged features.
- Reduced Costs and Time: Reduces the time and costs associated with traditional survey methods, making it a cost-effective solution for large-scale surveys.
- Environmental Monitoring: Supports environmental monitoring by providing detailed data on underwater habitats and ecosystems.
For a deeper dive into the potential of airborne bathymetric LiDAR, read the full article: Charting depths from above with airborne bathymetric Lidar | Hydro International
About RIEGL:
RIEGL is an international leading provider of cutting-edge technology in airborne, mobile, terrestrial, industrial and UAV-based laser scanning solutions for applications in surveying.
RIEGL has been producing LiDAR systems commercially for over 40 years and focuses on pulsed time-of-flight laser radar technology in multiple wavelengths.
RIEGL’s core smart-waveform technologies provide pure digital LiDAR signal processing, unique methodologies for resolving range ambiguities, multiple targets per laser shots, optimum distribution of measurements, calibrated amplitudes and reflectance estimates, as well as the seamless integration and calibration of systems.
RIEGL’s Ultimate LiDARTM 3D scanners offer a wide array of performance characteristics and serve as a platform for continuing Innovation in 3D for the LiDAR industry.
From the first inquiry, to purchase and integration of the system, as well as training and support, RIEGL maintains an outstanding history of reliability and support to their customers
Worldwide sales, training, support and services are delivered from RIEGL’s headquarters in Austria and in the USA; main offices in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, UK, South America, Germany, and France; and a worldwide network of representatives.
