Leica ADS40 Airborne Digital Sensor and Leica ALS40 Airborne Laser Scanner allow DeLorme to simultaneously capture high quality images and digital elevation data using a unique combination of high-resolution digital imagery and LIDAR.

DeLorme Publishing, a leading innovator in digital mapping and geospatial data collection and distribution, has purchased two powerful airborne sensors from Leica Geosystems – the Leica ADS40 Airborne Digital Sensor and Leica ALS40 Airborne Laser Scanner. The two systems will give DeLorme, a mapping software and navigation hardware provider, the advantage of simultaneously capturing high quality images and digital elevation data using a unique combination of high-resolution digital imagery and LIDAR (light detection and ranging).

The complete airborne platform, named TopoBird, includes a specially equipped twin engine turboprop aircraft that will house the Leica ALS40 and ADS40.