Leica construes its market as consisting of eight segments:
biology and medicine; materials sciences; microelectronics;
surveying; photogrammetry; industry; defence; photography.
Its vast range of products falls into eight areas, which have some
correspondence with the market segments: microscopes; scanning
electron microscopes; microtomes and ultramicrotomes; surveying
instruments; photogrammetric systems; optronics for industry;
optronics for defence; photographic and projection equipment.
Turnover can be assessed according to five major product groups:
microscopes is largest, followed by surveying, which includes
photogrammetry; photography and defence are smaller, only about
half as large as surveying, with industry smaller still. It may
also be analysed according to regions, with Europe accounting for
60%, America 28% and the Far East and Rest of the World 6% each.
Fig. 2 The structure of Leica pic
Fig. 2 shows the structure of Leica. To permit a proper
understanding of the activities and products within Leica which
are relevant to photogrammetrists, however, some clear explanation
is required. The Industry and Special Products division, which is
represented in many locations, including Aarau and Heerbrugg,
supplies both products and components to a wide range of
organisations. Amongst the products sold to industry, for
example, are prisms for scanners and the Wild range of plotters,
such as ТАЮ, TA3 0, TA4 0, TA41 and laser raster plotter. Defence
products include not only sights and rangefinders but also high
