Re: [Paparazzi-devel] RE: distance measurement for landing. (webcam laser ranger)

[marcus.wolschon]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:51:04 +0100, Sergey Lukin <address@hidden>
wrote:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altimeter>*laser*
> http://sites.google.com/site/todddanko/home/webcam_laser_ranger
> This seems to be much easier. What are the catches to it?


The catch is that you need a very strong laser for a computer to
find it in daylight.
Safety of humans is an issue here.
(I'm playing with 3D-scanning quite a lot.)

Marcus