How is KaRIn able to differentiate between water level and soil level beneath it? What's the maximum design depth it's supposed to be able to measure (i.e. what's the design margin you took)?
How do you process the data to account for measurement errors and false positives? I'm thinking a patch of water covered in algae could be detected as soil.
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How is KaRIn able to differentiate between water level and soil level beneath it? What's the maximum design depth it's supposed to be able to measure (i.e. what's the design margin you took)?
How do you process the data to account for measurement errors and false positives? I'm thinking a patch of water covered in algae could be detected as soil.