Re: [Paparazzi-devel] RE: distance measurement for landing.

[Sergey Lukin]

Hi guys,

I'm following this discussion for couple of days and I became curious, aren't there any already existing solutions to the hight measurement problem? I mean budget solutions.

I have found two interesting links:

uwb
http://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/radalt/radalt.html
This one will definitely work (this guy made more than 100 safe landings), but requires a lot of knowledge in antena and high frequency devices design.

laser
http://sites.google.com/site/todddanko/home/webcam_laser_ranger

This seems to be much easier. What are the catches to it?

Do you have some more interesting links on this subject? Lets exchange.

Kind regards,

Sergey