February 10, 2023 - Montreux, Switzerland - TOPODRONE, a Swiss based designer and manufacturer of high-precision surveying equipment and a partner of FIXAR, European developer of autonomous UAVs, will exhibit multipurpose surveying and mapping equipment at Geo Week 2023. The company will present VTOL integrations for airborne LiDAR & photogrammetry surveying and mapping. A free educational workshop is also on the agenda.
Meet TOPODRONE team at booth #1135 in Colorado Convention Center (Denver, CO, USA) between February 13 and 15 and join partner educational activities:
- February 13, 4 pm - Workshop: ‘Large area LiDAR survey with FIXAR VTOL’; speakers: Maxim Baklykov, TOPODRONE CEO, & Ronald Schultz, Head of Sales at FIXAR. Register for a complimentary exhibitor hall pass: https://www.xpressreg.net/register/GEOW0223/index.php?sc=GEO2330443
In February 2023 TOPODRONE and FIXAR teams performed test flights with the use of FIXAR 007 drone integrated with TOPODRONE LiDAR AVIA sensors in Denver, USA. Demo engineers performed two tests: over a small-scale TOPODRONE flight area and a larger distance within powerlines and forests.
The FIXAR 007 UAV combines all advantages of a fixed wing airplane like a high speed and low power consumption together with “copter style” taking off and landing. TOPODRONE LiDAR AVIA and ULTRA sensors were fast to integrate on board. The LiDAR survey missions were prepared within several minutes over the test site directly in the field considering terrain tracking in FIXAR proprietary mission planning software.
The integration proved the outstanding efficiency in comparison with DJI Matrice 300 drone and to work on the same level as large size VTOLs. Within a small scale flight the FIXAR UAV used less than 50% of battery to cover a bigger area in comparison with the DJI Matrice 300 drone and successfully accomplished the test mission, performing landing in autonomous mode.
In addition, TOPODRONE Post Processing software processed the collected data.The density of the point cloud acquired by LiDAR AVIA and ULTRA was observed to be enough to run automatic terrain classification, create DTM and contour lines.
