3D Scanning: (*items are 3rd party available, not supplied by Navtech Radar)
By articulating a RAS 6 2D Radar it is possible to create a 3-dimensional point cloud. To demonstrate this a Navtech RAS 6 radar was attached to a servo-mechanism* and the following field trial was undertaken.
Apparatus required:
Navtech RAS 6 Radar, configured for a forward facing FOV using sector blanking, Range limited to 200m, running at 4Hz 800 azimuth mode.
Servo-mechanism* with planetary gearbox and encoder - control achieved via ethernet communication*.
PC running Navtech SDK with interface to control electronics via ADS dllethernet*.
Application to rotate Radar and read data points utilising ‘Navigation mode’ which returns points above a pre-defined threshold. Returned points are converted to Cartesian co-ordinates and saved to a file.
Data rates / resolution:
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By generating Normals, it is possible to generate a mesh to represent the scanned object - in this case terrain from a Quarry.
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