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Electronic Distance Measurement

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Electronic Distance Measurement

Electronic Distance Measurement

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Hi, I'm a newbie to engineering and wondered if anyone new of a hand held electronic distance measuring device. The device would need to measure up to 500 meters and may possibly need to operate on multiple frequencies. The idea would be that there would be a target that I need to measure the distance from, but there might be multiple such targets in the surrounding area (hence the need for multiple frequencies). The target would listen for a particular frequency and then return a signal to the hand held device for the distance to be calculated. Does anyone know of such a device on the market at the moment or how best to implement?

Many thanks,

Phil.

RE: Electronic Distance Measurement

What is this preoccupation with radar?  

Use a laser rangefinder; they're cheaper, have extremely tight beams and have more than adequate range resolution.

TTFN

RE: Electronic Distance Measurement

Phildi,
         Just ran across your post. I have a similar need and was wondering if you had any luck?
BTW, would your targets be stationary or mobile?

Bmccps

RE: Electronic Distance Measurement

Yes there are systems that will do this.

RE: Electronic Distance Measurement

biff44,
         Could you share some info/links on some systems that you are speaking of?
Thanks,
bmccps

RE: Electronic Distance Measurement

Max distance is 500m. What is the min and accuracy?
Max measurement time?

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RE: Electronic Distance Measurement

Accurate time delay (distance) measurement by radio is best done using a transmitter modulated by a maximal length pseudo random sequence.  This is not too difficult and is the same technique as used by GPS.  A 10 bit sequence at a 5MHz chip rate can be correlated to better than 1m and down to a few mm if you get serious about it.

Perhaps GPS would do your job.

RE: Electronic Distance Measurement

No, but I can sell you a system.

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