First Production DA42 Multi-Purpose Platform Delivered To Customer | Aero-News Network
Aero-News Network
RSS icon RSS feed
podcast icon MP3 podcast
Subscribe Aero-News e-mail Newsletter Subscribe

Airborne Unlimited -- Most Recent Daily Episodes

Episode Date

Airborne-Monday

Airborne-Tuesday

Airborne-Wednesday Airborne-Thursday

Airborne-Friday

Airborne On YouTube

Airborne-Unlimited-12.02.24

Airborne-NextGen-12.03.24

Airborne-Unlimited-12.04.24

Airborne Flt Training-12.05.24

Airborne Holiday

Tue, Nov 20, 2007

First Production DA42 Multi-Purpose Platform Delivered To Customer

Aerial Laser Scanning Platform Already Pressed Into Service

Aero-News has learned Wolfgang Grumeth, Managing Director of Diamond Airborne Sensing GmbH, personally delivered the first DA42 Multi-Purpose Platform (MPP) in serial production to Dr. Johannes Riegl, CEO of RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems GmbH on November 13. RIEGL plans to use the aircraft as a customer demonstrator for aerial surveying via laser scanning, and as a prototype for testing and continued development of laser technology.

RIEGL, located in Horn, Austria and Diamond Aircraft Industries located in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, combined their know-how in aerial laser scanning and aviation to develop the only complete airborne laser scanning system (aircraft with integrated scanner) on the market.

Diamond Aircraft and RIEGL were recently awarded the "Karl Ritter von Ghega" Prize for innovation in Lower Austria for their efforts in developing this complete system solution for aerial laser scanning.

The aircraft, outfitted with an integrated laser scanner, has already surveyed areas in Lower Austria, the entire city of Vienna, and continual laser scanning missions outside of Austria with plans for further projects already on the table. One of the main businesses of Diamond Airborne Sensing remains the marketing of complete systems for aerial surveying.

The level of interest in this sector is very high and the company continues to receive orders, according to Diamond.

Laser scanning technology is a new and highly accurate method of surveying and it is applied in fields such as catastrophe prevention and flood, avalanche, landslide and rockslide area mapping. This revolutionary technology is also applied in the planning and building of highways, railways, pipelines, and power lines.

Both companies expect worldwide sales of surveying aircraft to reach up to 100 aircraft per year. The interested parties are surveying companies, who are switching from traditional terrestrial surveying to aerial surveying or surveying companies, who organize with great difficulty their own aircraft with integrated surveying equipment. The companies RIEGL and Diamond are in high-demand for the distribution of turn-key, complete surveying aircraft.

The use of Diamond aircraft as a surveillance aircraft for reconnaissance missions is also in high-demand, as every DA42 MPP can be easily transformed from a surveying aircraft into a reconnaissance aircraft by exchanging the surveying equipment with a camera system and vice versa.

FMI: www.diamond-sensing.com

Advertisement

More News

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (12.02.24)

Aero Linx: Airborne Public Safety Association (APSA) The Airborne Public Safety Association - APSA - is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational, individual membership organization, foun>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (12.02.24): Marker Beacon

Marker Beacon An electronic navigation facility transmitting a 75 MHz vertical fan or boneshaped radiation pattern. Marker beacons are identified by their modulation frequency and >[...]

NTSB Final Report: Kitfox 2

Airplane Entered An Aerodynamic Stall And Began An Uncommanded Left Turn Analysis: The pilot stated that he was departing at the time of the accident. As the airplane became airbor>[...]

Airborne Affordable Flyers 11.26.24: BushCat's Back!, LODA Update, DRL Miami

Also: Van Celebrates 85th, Trio Pro Pilot Autopilot, Joby on MSFS24, Sonex Transition The BushCat was manufactured in South Africa by SkyReach beginning in 2014, selling its first >[...]

Airborne 11.25.24: No 2025 CF-18 Demos, Privatization--Again?, USAF Silver Star

Also: USAFA Hotel FlightSims, Medevac-King Airs, University of Dubuque, Trump’s Transportation Secretary Pick The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) announced it will stand down>[...]

blog comments powered by Disqus



Advertisement

Advertisement

Podcasts

Advertisement

© 2007 - 2024 Web Development & Design by Pauli Systems, LC