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Backpack RTK

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About Backpack RTK

Backpack RTK mounts Emesent Hovermap on a wearable frame with a GNSS receiver, antenna pole and associated cabling. Outdoors, real-time-kinematic or post-processed-kinematic positioning provides global coordinates; when the operator moves inside or beneath cover, Hovermap’s SLAM continues mapping without satellite visibility.

Emesent Aura aligns the GNSS and SLAM records and automatically corrects accumulated drift when the operator returns to satellite coverage. The workflow reduces manual ground-control points and allows one continuous survey across exterior and interior spaces. The kit supports compatible Emlid, Trimble and Leica GNSS equipment for mines, construction sites and industrial facilities.

Context

Market context

Hovermap Backpack is a backpack-mounted deployment mode for Emesent Hovermap mobile mapping.

  • Target environment: Industrial, mining, AEC and infrastructure sites where a walking scan is preferable to drone or vehicle deployment.
  • Workflow context: Allows operators to collect LiDAR-SLAM point clouds while walking through assets, using the broader Hovermap mapping workflow.
  • Customer context: Surveyors, mine-mapping teams, AEC reality-capture teams and inspection contractors.
  • Deployment model: Accessory/deployment configuration within the Hovermap product ecosystem.
  • Commercial maturity: Publicly listed Hovermap deployment option and accessory pathway.
  • Adoption constraints: Not a separate aircraft; compare it as a mounting/deployment configuration for Hovermap rather than as an independent sensor platform.
  • Market position: Useful alternative capture mode for Hovermap users standardizing one scanner across several access methods.
  • Adjacent products: Emesent Hovermap, Emesent Hovermap ST-X, handheld SLAM scanners

Tags

  • Peer Group: Personnel-carried LiDAR mapping systems
  • Workflow: Industrial inspection
  • Capability: LiDAR mapping, GPS-denied operation
  • Stack Layer: LiDAR sensor hardware
  • Commercial Stage: Commercial product

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