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Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies

University of Arkansas

Leica C10 Scanner

Home » About CAST » Computing & Research Equipment » Research Instruments » 3D Scanners » Leica C10

The Leica C10 Scan Station scanner is a time-of-flight scanner with an effective operating range of +/- 1-200 m  (up to 300 m with 90% reflectivity).  It's motorized head allows scanning of a complete 360 degree by 270 degree area.  Data is acquired at a rate of 50,000 points/second and can be stored on-board or on a wireless or wired laptop.  The C10 has a number of features which make it particularly effective. For example it has automatic target acquisition capabilities that quickly allow survey control points to be integrated to the scan data.  The Center has a number of targets for this purpose. It has an on-board video camera which can be used for scan management/planing and is automatically aligned with the scans to texture  the point clouds.  Published specifications indicate that the accuracy of a single measurement is 6 mm in position and 4 mm in depth (at ranges up to 50 m). The system supports traverse and resection capabilities. 

Data acquired by the systems is processed using various software inclduing Cyclone, CloudWorx (for AutoCAD) PolyWorks and Rapidform.

The system has already been used in a number of projects and educational activities described below.

Research Projects

The C10 scanner played a key role in the precise 3D mapping of the Greco-Roman structures at Karanis in the Fayum of Egypt as part of the UCLA's Fayum Project. Closer to home the unit has served as a key component in a long term effort to improve the extraction of urban infrastructure from point clouds. A  project closer to home is focusing on the extraction of architectural and engineering elements fof complex urban engineering structures - with the first test case presented by the University's heating and cooling plant. This project is being conduced in collaboration with the University's of Arkansas' Facilities Management and TME Incorporated as one element in the development of next generation tools to record and manage complex urban infrastructure.  (this section under construction)

Educational projects

Along with the Z-F 5600i the C10 was part of the CI-TRAIN NSF-Funded summer field training program at the University of Arkansas campus in summer 2010 (more information is here) as well as the 2010 summer program at Eleusis Greece co-sponsored by the Center, the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the Initiative of Heritage Conservancy (more details are here).

Detailed technical information on the C10 is provided on the Leica web site - at this location.