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Diamond Airborne Sensing and RIEGL enter a new era of airborne laser scanning

The Diamond DA42 "Multi Purpose Platform New Generation" is an innovative composite, twin-engine aircraft with a standard installed new Austro Engine (a Diamond's subsidiary) diesel engine (AE 300) running on Jet A1.
The plane is designed for carrying multi-functional aerial sensor equipment, like large format digital aerial cameras (e.g. Vexcel UltraCamXP), EO/IR gimbals for surveillance and reconnaissance missions or RIEGL airborne laser scanners.

After years of successful cooperation, the two leading manufacturers Diamond and RIEGL decided to equip the new DA42 MPP NG with RIEGL's lates generation of airborne laser scanners, the new RIEGL LMS-Q680i. It is providing an unmatched laser pulse repetition rate of 400 kHz resulting in an effective measurement rate of up to 266.000 coordinates per second. A high scan rate of up to 200 lines per second at a constant 60 degrees field of view provides an evenly distributed point pattern of highest resolution.

For more information about the state-of-the-art RIEGL LMS-Q680i Airborne Laser Scanner providing echo digitization, in-depth full waveform analysis and multiple-time-around signal processing refer to
www.riegl.com/products/airborne-scanning/produktdetail/product/scanner/23/