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Port Coquitlam, BC - Canada
7 APPENDIX - 1007D ALTIMETER ALTITUDE
DETECTION ALGORITHM
The 1007D is a digital altimeter used in several applications such as bottom profiling
and forward-looking obstacle avoidance deployments. This appendix describes the
methods used to determine the altitude/return values from the sampled sonar data.
The following figure shows a typical altimeter return signal:
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Min. Gap Setting
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