Geospatial Excellence Award for RIEGL
The RIEGL VQ-820-G has won the Geospatial Excellence Award in the Technology Innovation category at the MAPPS/ASPRS 2012 Specialty Conference. The VQ-820-G introduced the world's first 'tightly coupled', shallow-water, land and smart echo waveform Lidar sensor.
A live demonstration of the RIEGL VQ-820-G took place in South Florida from 12-16 March 2012 to showcase the capabilities of the scanner.
The MAPPS awards competition recognises the professionalism, value, integrity and achievement that member firms have demonstrated in their projects and technology developments over the previous year.
The Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards program has eight categories for projects and technologies delivered in calendar year 2012: airborne and satellite data acquisition; photogrammetry/elevation data generation; remote sensing; GIS/IT; small projects; surveying/field data collection; technology innovation and licensed data products.
