The RANGER-U580 is a compact manned airborne laser scanning system designed for mid-range flight altitude applications such as medium/wide-area mapping as well as corridor mapping. Featuring the compact and lightweight Riegl VQ-580II-S laser scanner, PhaseOne iXM-GS120 and the PLS FOG IMU-60, the RANGER-U580 is perfectly suited for integration into a wide range of manned aircrafts such as helicopters, small fixed-wing aircraft and ultralight aircraft. 

With a measurement rate of up to 1,250,000 meas./sec, laser wavelength of 1052nm and a wide field of view of 75°, the RANGER-U580 perfectly meets the challenges of various special airborne surveying applications like corridor mapping, city modeling, snowfield mapping, glacier monitoring, agriculture and forestry.

Features:

• Increased measurement range of up to 2,450m (8,038ft)
• Perfectly linear and parallel scan lines
• Narrow 0.28 mrad beam divergence results in excellent accuracy & precision at long distances
• Designed for helicopters and Cessna single-engine piston aircraft 
• 1052nm laser wavelength enables measurements of wet and frozen surfaces, yields excellent results in snowfield mapping and glacier monitoring 

UP2 attached to Cessna 172