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NTIA: Lidar Has Role in Dynamic Spectrum Sharing

NTIA is looking at how lidar data can be used for dynamic spectrum sharing, a Friday blog post said. NTIA’s Institute for Telecommunication Sciences recently held a technical seminar to share best practices for using lidar data in spectrum modeling,…

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NTIA said. “By measuring the time it takes for a laser pulse to return to its sending point, a lidar system measures and records the shapes and heights of buildings, trees, and other surface features to create a very precise three-dimensional model of an environment,” the blog post said: “Spectrum sharing relies on these propagation models to predict signal strength between two points, such as a cell phone and a government system like an air traffic control radar.”