The new?RIEGL?VQ-180 2D Laser Scanner provides high speed, non-contact data acquisition using a narrow infrared laser beam and a fast line scanning mechanism. High accuracy laser ranging is based on?RIEGL′sunique echo digitization and online waveform analysis, which allows achieving superior measurement capability even under adverse atmospheric conditions and the evaluation of multiple target echoes. The scanning mechanism is based on a fast rotating multi-facet polygonal mirror, which provides fully linear, unidirectional and parallel scan lines.
The?RIEGL?VQ-180 is a very compact and lightweight scanner, mountable in any orientation and?even under?limited space conditions on moving platforms, such as boats, trains, road and off-road vehicles. The instrument needs only?one power supply and provides line scan data via?the integrated LAN-TCP/IP interface. The binary data stream can easily be?decoded by user-designed software?making?use of?the available software library RiVLib.