Leica Geosystems Unveils Next-Generation Airborne Bathymetric LiDAR Solution for Deep Water Surveying with the Leica HawkEye-5

Leica Geosystems Unveils Next-Generation Airborne Bathymetric LiDAR Solution for Deep Water Surveying with the Leica HawkEye-5

(IN BRIEF) Leica Geosystems has launched the Leica HawkEye-5, an innovative airborne bathymetric LiDAR solution for deep water surveying. The technology provides a significant improvement in flight efficiency, resulting in faster data collection and increased area coverage, expanding the capabilities of the Leica Chiroptera-5 bathymetric LiDAR system. The Leica HawkEye-5 is designed to fit the Leica PAV100 gyro-stabilized mount, which results in more consistent data density and greater efficiency in data acquisition. The technology features three LiDAR sensors, a 4-band camera, and a QC camera, each optimized for a specific task. The Leica HawkEye-5 is fully integrated with Leica Geosystems’ bathymetric data processing and analysis workflow, providing users with powerful tools from mission planning and execution to product generation. The technology is available as an upgrade package to owners of previous HawkEye systems, offering an easy and cost-effective solution to enhance sensor capabilities for deep water bathymetric surveying.

(PRESS RELEASE) HEERBRUGG, 13-Feb-2023 — /EuropaWire/ — Hexagon (STO: HEXA-B), a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies, announces that its subsidiary Leica Geosystems, has launched the Leica HawkEye-5, an advanced airborne bathymetric LiDAR solution for deep water surveying. This innovative technology increases survey efficiency by up to 25% compared to previous generations, expanding the capabilities of the Leica Chiroptera-5 bathymetric LiDAR system. With applications in nautical charting, environmental monitoring, and maritime surveillance, the Leica HawkEye-5 offers users significant improvements in flight efficiency and data collection speed, allowing more projects to be completed in a shorter time frame, maximizing revenues and return on investment.

Designed to fit the Leica PAV100 gyro-stabilized mount, the HawkEye-5 is isolated from unwanted aircraft movements, resulting in consistent data density and more efficient area coverage. The combination of the Chiroptera-5 with the HawkEye-5 features three LiDAR sensors, one 4-band camera and a QC camera, each optimized for a specific task, allowing for seamless acquisition of the highest quality geospatial data from land to deep ocean seafloors.

The Leica HawkEye-5 is fully integrated with Leica Geosystems’ bathymetric data processing and analysis workflow, providing users with powerful tools from mission planning and execution to product generation. The LiDAR Survey Studio (LSS) software suite enables full waveform analysis, automatic data classification and advanced turbid water enhancement to support multiple applications.

This new technology is available as an upgrade package to owners of previous HawkEye systems, providing an easy and cost-effective solution to enhance their sensor capabilities for deep water bathymetric surveying.

In summary, the Leica HawkEye-5 provides a significant improvement in flight efficiency for deep water surveying, offering users faster data collection and increased area coverage. The technology is part of Leica Geosystems’ integrated bathymetric data processing and analysis workflow, providing users with powerful tools from mission planning to product generation. The HawkEye-5 is available as an upgrade package to owners of previous HawkEye systems, allowing them to leverage their initial investment.

The HawkEye-5 is the world’s only stabilised sensor performing advanced bathymetric surveys in deep waters”, said Anders Ekelund, Vice President of Airborne Bathymetry at Hexagon. “Paired with the Chiroptera-5, the new system provides a comprehensive solution to efficiently address the most diverse application requirements, equipping customers to take on the challenges of the growing bathymetric market, and to optimise their financial outcome”.

Leica Geosystems – when it has to be right
With more than 200 years of history, Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, is the trusted supplier of premium sensors, software and services. Delivering value every day to professionals in surveying, construction, infrastructure, mining, mapping and other geospatial content-dependent industries, Leica Geosystems leads the industry with innovative solutions to empower our autonomous future.

Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 24,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 5.2bn EUR. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB.

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Cristina Mauri
Product Marketing Manager
Leica Geosystems AG
CH-9435 Heerbrugg
Switzerland
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Hexagon is a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and mobility applications.

Our technologies are shaping production and people related ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous – ensuring a scalable, sustainable future.

Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 24,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 5.2bn EUR. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB.

SOURCE: Hexagon AB