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 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