Lehmann Aviation LA300

Lehmann Aviation LA300 is a fully automatic professional lightweight small UAV designed for most accurate mapping and DEM. It was launched by Lehmann Aviation, the French manufacturer of leightweight versatile UAS based in La Chapelle-Vendômoise, Loir-et-Cher, in July 2013. The LA300 belongs to Lehmann Aviation L-A series of fully automatic UAVs.

The LA300 is a totally autonomous «drone» designed for people with no piloting background. It works with Nokia Lumia 1020 mobile phone and GoPro camera and enables to capture professional quality aerial images with up to 41 Mp resolution. The drone was designed to do professional orthomosaic and DEM for the needs of geodesy/mapping, agricultural sector (surfaces and volume calculation, detection of damaged crops), mining and construction.

The LA300 works with any Windows 8 touchscreen tablet which enables user to set up flight parameters and geotag images. For flight preparation and mission control the user has to «draw» on a touchscreen tablet area of interest and enter waypoints. Afterwards Lehmann’s OperationCenter automatically generates missions and programs the drone. The flight data is then to be transmitted to the drone via WI-FI. After mounting Nokia Lumia 1020 on the wing and launching the drone by hand, the user has to wait until it automatically flies over the chosen waypoints and lands.

The LA300 flies at range of up to 15 km, at speeds of 20–80 km/h.^[1]

The LA300 is the 3rd drone of Lehmann Aviation L-A series of fully automatic civil SUAV which differs from Lehmann Aviation L-M series of aircraft that can be controlled from the ground (LP960, LM450, LV580). There two other drones of the L-A series: LA100 and LA200.

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External links

• Description of the LA 300
• Datasheet