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Leica Pegasus Backpack Wearable Reality Capture – Indoors, Outdoors, Anywhere

Ultra mobile reality capture sensor platform – authoritative professional documentation indoors or outdoors

Leica Pegasus Backpack is a unique wearable reality capturing sensor platform combining cameras and Lidar profilers with the lightness of a carbon fiber chassis and a highly ergonomic design. The Pegasus:Backpack enables extensive and efficient indoor or outdoor documentation at a level of accuracy that is authoritative and professional. The Pegasus:Backpack is designed for rapid and regular reality capture – no longer is scanning registration needed for progressive scanning. The Pegasus:Backpack is just completely portable – enabling it to be checked in as luggage on a flight – simply fly-in, wear, collect, then fly-out. As part of the Pegasus platform, the Pegasus:Backpack is designed to act as a sensor platform with our standard external trigger and sync port outputs.

Leica Pegasus:Backpack

Map indoors, outdoors, underground, anywhere
Making progressive professional BIM documentation a reality with the Leica Pegasus:Backpack solution, synchronising imagery and point cloud data together, therefore assuring a complete documentation of a building for full life cycle management. By using SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) technology and a high precision IMU, we ensure accurate positioning with GNSS outages – ensuring the best known position independent of how it is used.

With the Leica Pegasus:Backpack outdoor areas or underground infrastructures with limited access professional data collection is no longer limited . By capturing full 360 spherical view and Lidar together means you never forget an object or return to a project site – no matter where you are. A hardware light sensor ensures the operator that all images are usable while other functions are verifiable and adjustable over the operators tablet device.


Main features

  • Indoor and outdoor mapping in one single solution – position agnostic
  • Marries imagery and point cloud data into a single calibrated, user-intuitive platform
  • Full calibrated spherical view
  • External trigger output and external time stamping for additional sensors
  • Light sensor for auto brightness and balance control for image capture
  • Software enables access to Esri® ArcGIS for Desktop
  • Capture and edit 3D spatial objects from images and / or within the point cloud
  • Economical with data – balances data quantity and quality, with project logistics and post-processing
  • Ultra light weight carbon fiber core frame with an extensive ergonomic support for prolonged use
  • Real time view of the captured data through the tablet device
  • Up to 6 hours operational time with optional battery pack

Hardware features

  • Two profilers with 600,000 pts/sec, 50 m usable range and 16 channels
  • Largest sensor to pixel in the market – 5.5 um x 5.5 um
  • Five 4 MB cameras positioned to capture 360° x 200° view
  • User adjustable acquisition intervals based on the distance travelled
  • NovAtel ProPak6™ provides the latest and most sophisticated precise GNSS receiver with a robust field proven IMU for position accuracy of 20 mm RMS after 10 seconds of outage
  • Marrying a triple band GNSS system with the latest multiple beam enabled SLAM algorithms
  • INS determination of the location, speed, velocity and orientation at a rate of 200 Hz
  • Ultra portable system fitting into one carrying case (system weight 13 kg)
  • Battery based – using four batteries in a hot swappable configuration
  • Multi-core industrial PC, 1 TB SSD, USB3 interface, ethernet, and wireless connection from the system to the tablet device

Leica Pegasus:Backpack Indoor mapping solution

Leica Pegasus:Backpack enables unimaginable applications for indoor and outdoor mapping combining  visual images with the accuracy of a point cloud for professional documentation – in a wearable, ergonomic, and ultra light carbon fiber construction.

Software features

  • User capable of adding acquisition point objects in a Shapefile format during data acquisition
  • Advanced export capability for CAD-systems and others (DWG, DXF, SHP, GDB, DGN, E57, HPC, LAS, PTS, NMEA, KMZ)
  • Semi-automatic extraction tools
  • Sequenced images and videos for rapid navigation and object recognition
  • Software pointer “snaps” automatically and continuously onto the point cloud data from within an image
  • Immediate access to point clouds for accurate measurement
  • 3D stereoscopic view to decrease errors and increase throughput
  • Shadowed or missing 3D points can be acquired via photogrammetric processes
  • Data capture module displays the current location based on a GIS user interface
  • Data capture module displays all cameras and Lidar scans live, simultaneously
  • Data capture module enables laser scanner management and GNSS Operation
  • Live status monitoring of system during data acquisition

Software benefits

  • Lidar accuracy with image-based usability
  • Digitise spatial objects through mobile mapping
  • A more natural approach for non-professional users while offering technical interface for advanced users
  • Scalable to your applications including less accurate simple GIS needs
  • Short data acquisition time
  • High acquisition throughput
  • High post-processing throughput
  • Manageable license options – compatible with thin-client viewer
  • Esri® ArcGIS for Desktop compatible
  • Leverages Esri® relational platform for advanced features