Leica CityMapper-2 High-Performance Urban Mapping Sensor

The need for accurate aerial data in metropolitan areas goes beyond traditional data products because the fast-changing urban environments require more frequent and hence more efficient updates of geospatial base layers.

The Leica CityMapper-2 is specifically designed for airborne urban mapping and offers twice the data collection performance to addresses the urgent need for 3D data. The world’s only hybrid oblique imaging and LiDAR airborne sensors, captures two nadir (RGB/NIR) and four oblique 150 MP images every 0.9 seconds providing the highest resolution to visualise every corner of the city. With a new generation 2 MHz pulse rate LiDAR, this sensor breaks all conventional barriers of urban mapping.

The newly developed Leica MFC150 optical system is equipped with Leica Geosystem’s unique mechanical forward-motion-compensation (FMC), which allows to capture high quality imagery even in difficult lighting conditions with no reduction in efficiency, unlike traditional camera systems that have to increase the shutter speed and decrease the aircraft speed to control image blur.

Leica CityMapper-2 High-Performance Urban Mapping Sensor Specifications:

• Storage temperature: -40°C to 70°C
• Operating temperature -10°C to 35°C
• Humidity 0% to 95% RH according to ISO7137
• Pressure Non-pressurised cabin up to ICAO 15,000 ft