The Topcon Sirius Basic is an entry-level system offering many of the advantages of the Sirius Pro with options to upgrade. Both systems also offer autopilot-assisted manual control, automatic flight planning and safety features.

Topcon Positioning Group released two unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) for aerial mapping applications: the Sirius Pro and Sirius Basic fixed-wing aircraft systems. Both systems are designed to produce accurate solutions for mapping a wide range of sites—regardless of terrain—for use in land surveying, power line and pipeline inspection, and precision agriculture.

The fixed-wing systems resulted from a partnership with MAVinci GmbH, a UAS development company with which Topcon recently entered into a worldwide distribution agreement.

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