A LiDAR sensor emits a pulse of light and measures the “time…
A LiDAR sensor emits a pulse of light and measures the “time of flight” for the light to travel to an object and bounce back to the sensor. The speed of light in air is about 2.997 × 108 meters per second in air, which we can round up to 3 × 108 or 300, 000, 000 meters per second here. If the time of flight of a pulse of light for some object is 200 nanosecods (2 × 10−7 seconds), how far away is the object?
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