The RIEGL RiCAST

Join Eric Agnello, RIEGL USA’s Regional Sales Manager for the West Coast in today’s episode of the RIEGL RiCAST! Tune in as he discusses RIEGL’s innovative new VUX-120 LiDAR sensor, the latest addition to the VUX family of high performance, light weight, survey-grade, laser instruments, designed for use on manned and unmanned aerial platforms. Eric Agnello is the Regional Sales Manager of th...

Join Nikita Gridin, RIEGL USA’s ULS Sales Specialist, in today’s episode of the  RIEGL  RiCAST! Tune in as he provides valuable information on RIEGL’s latest expansion to the miniVUX series product line: the miniVUX-3UAV. Learn more about this innovative sensor as he covers its increased performance capabilities, impactful applications that RIEGL operators can utilize this sensor for, an...

In today’s episode of the RIEGL RiCAST, join RIEGL USA’s Division Manager of Airborne Laser Scanning, Michael Sitar, as he provides valuable information about the factors that can impact topographic LiDAR target detection success. Tune in to learn more about how sensor specifications, target characteristics, and environmental conditions affect sensor parameter selection and mission planning....

Editors note: This is an all-Spanish RiCAST. Please see a description in English followed by a Spanish translation. English Description: Join Claudio Avello, Regional Sales Manager of South America for RIEGL USA, and Ramiro Juan Manuel Cura, Director of Cura & Jordan Engineering in Argentina during this week’s RiCAST. Learn more about Cura & Jordan and how their purchase of the RIEGL...

In this week’s RIEGL RiCAST, Michael Sitar, RIEGL USA’s Division Manager of Airborne Laser Scanning is joined by Dr. Martin Pfennigbauer, Director of Research and Intellectual Property at RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems. Tune in as they dive even deeper into LiDAR Bathymetry, and provide further information on RIEGL’s latest bathymetric sensors and software for airborne data collected on both mann...

In today’s episode of the RIEGL RiCAST, learn more about LiDAR Bathymetry. RIEGL USA’s Division Manager of Airborne Laser Scanning, Michael Sitar, provides an overview on what bathymetry is and why it is important. Tune in as he discusses the core enabling technologies as well as some advantages and limitations with collecting LiDAR data, along with what government programs within the United...

Join Joshua France, RIEGL USA’s Division Manager of Mobile Laser Scanning in today’s episode of the RIEGL RiCAST! Tune in as he discusses how the cutting-edge RIEGL VZ-400i Laser Scanning System can be used in a mobile mode to survey from a boat. The VZ-400i can be used for coastal and river mapping, whether by land or by sea, Josh provides insight on how the scanner is a great solution. Mr....

In this episode of the RIEGL RiCAST, we are joined with Joshua France, RIEGL USA’s Mobile Laser Scanning Segment Manager, as he provides insight on the RIEGL VMX-2HA Mobile Mapping System! Learn more about this well-known solution for GIS applications, and for high quality, high accuracy surveys on highways along with other infrastructure corridors, such as railways. Mr. France has been with RIEGL...

In the first RIEGL RiCAST of the new year, Ryan Lynch of NV5 Geospatial powered by Quantum Spatial, joins Michael Sitar, RIEGL USA’s Airborne Division Manager, to explore corridor surveying and NV5 Geospatial’s latest class act.

English Description: Claudio Avello, South America Partner Development Manager for RIEGL USA, talks with Rogerio Neves, CEO at CPE Technologia. Rogerio has been working at CPE for over 24 years and is a graduate from the Universidad Federal de Mato Gross in Brazil, where he obtained his degree in Business. He also has a postgraduate degree in International Business from Miami University. The two c...

Sam Hackett, Associate Surveyor and Mobile Mapping Manager from Wood Welcome to our first international edition of the popular series “Road Trips with Josh and the VMX”. Today’s journey is off the interstate maps as we travel to the southernmost Polynesian island: New Zealand! Joshua France, RIEGL USA’s MLS Segment Manager is joined today with Sam Hackett, Associate Surveyor and Mobile Mappi...

In today's episode of the RIEGL RiCAST, we are excited to share the remarkable features on one of our new products, the RIEGL VUX-120. Join RIEGL USA’s ULS & UAS Business Segment Manager, My-Linh Truong, as she provides details on the elements that the RIEGL VUX-120 contains. This powerful and lightweight UAV-based LiDAR sensor is ideal for unmanned corridor applications, especially for fixed-wing...

In this episode of the RIEGL RiCAST, we are excited to share our new products and latest developments for the unmanned laser scanning marketplace! Today we are joined with My-Linh Truong, RIEGL USA’s ULS & UAS Business Segment Manager, as she provides insight on the RIEGL VUX-120 and miniVUX-3UAV; our new LiDAR sensors that were recently introduced at INTERGEO Digital 2020! These new sensors are t...

In this edition of the RIEGL RiCAST, we are joined by RIEGL USA's Senior Vice President, James Van Rens. James Van Rens is the Senior Vice President of RIEGL USA, the North American distributor of RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems, which is recognized as the performance leader in the mobile mapping, civil infrastructure, airborne scanning, unmanned, hydrographic, bathymetric, mining and terrestrial...

In today’s installment of the RIEGL RiCAST we are joined with Michael Sitar, RIEGL USA’s Executive Consultant Manager, as he breaks down the new product line that was released at INTERGEO Digital 2020! INTERGEO being one of RIEGL’s biggest shows may have had a different look this year, but nonetheless the LiDAR world excitedly waited for us to announce our latest and greatest new systems that we r...

In this edition of the RIEGL RiCAST, we are joined by two mobile scanning pros for the latest episode of “VMX: 10 Years of Success”: Joshua France with RIEGL USA and Bret Bienkowski with Tetra Tech. Mr. Bienkowski is the Mobile Mapping Survey Manager for the Geomatics group with Tetra Tech. He obtained his B.S. degree in Geomatics from the University of Florida. Bret is experienced with surveying...

On today’s RiCAST, Claudio Avello, RIEGL USA’s South American Partner Development Manager, chats with Salvador Primo, General Director of GTBi. GTBi is dedicated to pre-sale, sale, installation, training and maintenance of large format photogrammetry systems and RIEGL's LiDAR equipment. GTBi additionally serves as our distributor for Colombia. Last year, GTBi joined RIEGL’s distinguished group of...

It’s that time of year again! Join us for RIEGL’s latest RiCAST where we discuss one of the industry’s largest conferences of the year, INTERGEO 2020, which is going virtual! This episode of RIEGL’s RiCAST “RIEGL is Here! INTERGEO Digital 2020” features for the first time RIEGL USA’s Susan Licari, Sales and Marketing Director and Miranda Welky, Marketing Events Coordinator as they discuss how to a...

Welcome to the latest episode of the RIEGL RiCAST, which is the next installation of Joshua France’s “VMX: 10 Years of Success” series with Tim Platz, Vice President and Survey Department Director at Fishbeck. Tim Platz, PS is the Survey Department Director for Fishbeck, a professional consulting firm with offices in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. Fishbeck offers Engineering, Environmental Sciences,...

English Description: This German language RiCAST will discuss what RIEGL and the landmark of Vienna, the St. Stephen's Cathedral, have in common. Franz Zehetner, from the archives of the Dombauhütte St. Stephan, is responsible for the extensive documents and plans of the gothic cathedral - some of them are already centuries old! Managing, updating, and supplementing the records on an ongoing basis...

In today’s installment of the RIEGL RiCAST, we are joined by Michael Sitar, RIEGL USA’s Executive Management Consultant, along with Nick Ferguson, VP of Strategy & BD from Enview Inc. Enview Inc. offers data analytics and remote sensing solutions. The company automates geospatial big data for the energy industry to enhance the safety, reliability, and compliance of pipeline and power line operatio...

English Description: Claudio Avello, South America Partner Development Manager for RIEGL USA, talks with Miguel Gerardo Vazquez, the Director of the Brazilian offices for Metro Cubico Engenharia. Miguel has more than 12 years of experience in the LiDAR industry and is a graduate from Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, where he obtained his Cartographic Engineering degree. The two chat about t...

Welcome to our latest episode of “VMX: 10 Years of Success” featuring RIEGL USA’s Mobile Segment Manager, Joshua France. In this RiCAST, we are joined with Clay Wygant from Maser Consulting. Maser Consulting is a nationwide, privately owned multi-discipline engineering firm with a new, unique balance of public and private sector experience. Clay has led the mobile division at Maser Consulting sinc...

Today, we have an interesting RiCAST ready for all our current or potential future airborne users. RIEGL’s Michael Sitar, Executive Management Consultant, does an overview of one of our newest and innovative airborne scanning systems; the VQ-1560 II. Michael goes into detail on this state-of-the-art instrument and highlights the benefits and its best practices in the LiDAR industry. The configurat...

In today’s RiCAST, for our Spanish speakers, we will be going back to the basics! Our RIEGL LiDAR expert, Claudio Avello, South America Partner Development Manager, will be discussing all things LiDAR! He will start from the basic foundation to the more complex expert level in this episode. Everyone who listens can fully grasp why this technology is extraordinarily important in the Engineering and...