Leica Geosystems Ag

Klaus Bereuter

Simon Mark

Jürgen Dold

Charles Leopold Elisabeth Dumoulin

Roman Steffen

Benjamin Müller

Jochen Scheja

Lukas Heinzle

Burkhard Böckem

Matthias Wieser

Karl Helmut Plangger

Burkhard BÖCKEM

A laser scanner and a system with a laser scanner for measuring an environment. The laser scanner includes an optical distance measuring device, a support, a beam steering unit rotatably fixed to the support which rotates around a beam axis of rotation. The beam steering unit includes a mirrored surface which deflects radiation used in the optical distance measurement and an angle encoder for recording angle data. The optical distance measurement is performed by a progressive rotation of the beam steering unit about the beam axis of rotation and the continuous emission of a distance measurement radiation, the emission being made through an outlet area arranged in the direction of the mirrored surface on the support, the receiving optics for receiving radiation are arranged on the support, and wherein the outlet area has a lateral offset with respect to the optical axis of the receiving optics.

Laser scanner

A surveillance system for detecting an object within a monitored infrastructure and to a hybrid 3D surveying device, wherein a LiDAR device is configured that scanning is carried out with respect to two essentially orthogonal axes and wherein the LiDAR device comprises a cover mounted on the base, such that the base and the cover form an enclosure that encloses all moving parts of the LiDAR device, wherein the cover is configured to be opaque for visible light and translucent for the wavelength range of the LiDAR transmission radiation. The system further comprises a computing unit configured for processing the LiDAR measurement data to generate a 3D point cloud of the monitored infrastructure, and an object detector configured for classification of the object based on the 3D point cloud.

3D surveillance system comprising LiDAR and multispectral imaging for object classification

A scanning measuring device, in particular a laser scanner, profiler, total station or tracker, comprising at least a base for the placement of the device, a housing mounted on the base, a shaft mounted in the housing such that it can rotate about an axis of rotation and bearing a beam deflection unit in a rotationally fixed manner, a beam generating unit, which generates a transmitted beam which is transmitted into the environment by the beam deflection unit, a beam receiving unit, which receives a received beam reflected from the environment, a controllable positioning means which drives the shaft, wherein the shaft is supported by at least one pair of angular contact rolling bearings set in an O arrangement, and the angular contact rolling bearings are arranged on the shaft such that the rolling contact lines of the associated angular contact rolling bearings meet substantially on the axis of rotation.

Scanning measuring device with thermally neutral axis

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Alberschwende, Austria

Klaus Bereuter