JALBTCX Technical Award for RIEGL Bathymetric Lidar Survey

RIEGL has received the Sebastian Sizgoric Technical Achievement Award at this year’s JALBTCX conference in Savannah, Georgia, USA. The recipient of the Sebastian Sizgoric Technical Achievement Award must have made a major contribution in the field of Lidar bathymetry and airborne coastal mapping and charting within the past two years. This year’s award honours RIEGL's efforts and developments in this field.

The trophy was presented to RIEGL during the 18th Annual JALBTCX Airborne Coastal Mapping and Charting Workshop held from 6-8 June 2017 at the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center, Georgia.        

JALBTCX is the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise whose mission is to perform operations, research, and development in airborne Lidar bathymetry and complementary technologies to support the coastal mapping and charting requirements of the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the US Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Since entering the field of shallow water bathymetry over five years ago, RIEGL has been continually innovating.

Already with the first entrance of RIEGL into the field of airborne laser bathymetry through a research project together with the University of Innsbruck, Austria, special focus was put onto compactness and lightweightness of the instrument.