Sensors

2 MHz LiDAR scanner

4 band true metric cameras

Integrated airborne hybrid sensors system

The airborne market for area-wide 3D data acquisition is experiencing a noticeable trend towards a hybrid mapping concept. The most airborne data collection will increasingly be performed by a combination of active and passive sensors. There are two main reasons for this. Firstly, collecting all relevant data while flying is an efficient and cost-effective solution, even when the flying restrictions and regulations are factored in. Also, exploiting the advantages of both light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and aerial imaging will improve the quality of the final geospatial products.

MapSoft has hybrid sensor system of airborne LiDAR systems which integrate a LiDAR unit and a passive imaging unit (multi-camera fashion) in the same platform for concurrent acquisition of ranging and imagery data. MapSoft’s hybrid sensor system consist of:

High quality LiDAR sensor and
Aerial metric multispectral camera (RGB+NIR)

The system is integrated into a single unit and equipped with a high-quality Trimble GNSS/IMU georeferencing system. Improved data quality is provided by the gyro platform, which has the role of compensating for the tilt of the aircraft during flight mission.

Beside airborne data acquisition, MapSoft has high-quality equipment for hydrographic survey.

LiDAR scanner

2 MHz effective ground measurement rate
Parallel and additional scan lines
Ultra-compact, high-performance mapping sensor
Compatible with Phase One cameras and gyro-stabilized mount
8-returns for improved vertical resolution

Galaxy Edge+ delivers high-resolution data with the most efficient acquisition in steep terrain, resulting in lower carbon footprint and a 20-50% reduction in collection costs. The new Teledyne solution responds to market needs for uniform point density by accelerating the scan speed and delivering straight and parallel scan lines. It also optimizes for wire detection and reduces atmospheric noise and processing labor

Multispectral cameras

PHASE ONE iXU-RS1000

2 cameras (RGB + NIR)
100 Mpix CMOS sensor - (11.608 x 8.708 pixels)
True metric calibrated camera
Designed and tested for aerial imaging purposes
High quality Rodenstock lens

The MapSoft camera system is based on two Phase One metric cameras. The 4-Band solution includes two synchronized Phase One metric calibrated cameras (RGB and NIR) mounted side by side on a specially designed base plate. The software automatically generates distortion-free images and performs fine co-registration of pixels from the NIR to the RGB images, including processing different image sizes.

Both cameras are true metric calibrated camera and meet the highest standards of spatial accuracy and radiometric quality in the production of the most demanding geospatial products. These cameras have become standard in all high-quality aerial hybrid sensor systems.

4-Band combined NIR and RGB (RGBN) TIFF (4-Band CIR)
3-Band combined NIR and RGB (NRG) TIFF (3-Band CIR)
NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) TIFF
Distortion-free / corrected RGB TIFF
Distortion-free / corrected NIR TIFF
RGB TIFF
NIR TIFF

Multibeam sonor

NORBIT iWBMS Turnkey

SPECIFICATION
DESCRIPTION

Swath: 5 - 210°
Depth range: 0.2 - 275 m
Operative temperature: -4° - +40°
Nominal frequency: 400 kHz

This all-in-one tightly integrated broadband multibeam turnkey solution offers high resolution bathymetry over a wide swath. The high-end sonar with Applanix WaveMaster II (globally leading GNSS/INS system) embedded into the unit ensures fast and reliable mobilisation and highest quality sounding for surveys in all conditions.

The WBMS-series are based on a flexible sonar platform that utilizes the latest in analogue and digital signal processing. With broad R&D expertise, NORBIT has developed, from the ground-up, exciting new technology that allows existing and new applications to benefit from the advantages offered by a compact wideband curved-array multibeam sonar.