I think the USGS is making 3D clutter maps with LIDAR. CnHeat is
supposed to use that wherever it's available.
I haven't heard how that relates to the SAS though. Is this something
you learned from the "450 Lady"? Care to share?
On 12/5/2019 10:25 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
first question is if a guy collects accurate clutter data, can he use
it in any of the propagation tools we use?
second, and this is where you braniacs come in, what equipment would
it take on a drone to collect this data?
IIRC drone limit without FAA is something like 300 feet. would that
even be tall enough to sweep a wide enough path that it wouldnt take
300 battery charges to do a square mile?
I envision a course plotted drone trip that will fly over with a pilot
car trailing to maintain the required operator LOS.
If you think about how many miles youve put on verifying link paths
over the years, its not really a prohibitive thing.
CBRS and SAS is whats driving this query, but general propagation
anomalies creates quite a pickle that better accuracy/resolution
clutter accuracy would alleviate.
Please tell me there is already a consortium thats built out a clutter
standard with a clutter submission mechanism, that would completely
tickle me silly.
I also dont know the impact to the propagation back ends as you
increase the resolution of the data. Im assuming the SAS
administrators are running something a little beefier than Radio Mobile.
I could see this being a lucrative niche market, if there were a way
around the drone operator licensing requirements (though that cost is
pretty minimal). Basically a company builds up a small fleet of
drones, outfitted with the appropriate gear. You create an account,
input your coverage area (or any region) that you want high resolution
data for. they reprogram the course and ship it to you (after
collecting the upfront payment, deposit, and massive liability
release) they provide you with a road course to drive while the drone
does its thing, anticipate points of retrieval for recharge, etc. when
its all done, you stick it in the box and ship it back. would be
cooler if the whole thing was transported back and forth by amazon drones.
If I had a guarantee that the collected data would be useful to the
company, into radio mobile, link planner, towercoverage, and SAS
administrators, its something i could see a fair price tag of 3-10k on
it for our coverage area, and no farmers blasted it out of the sky.
we use clutter data now thats antiquated so it would come with the
understanding that photosynthesis and bulldozers impact accuracy from
the minute its collected.
maybe this data is already out there and i dont know?
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