Farming Equipment Company Gets Ground Penetrating Radar Waiver From FCC
The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology approved a waiver for Headsight to start selling unlicensed ultra-wide band (UWB) ground penetrating radar (GPR) for agricultural use. The technology operates in the UWB bandwidth contained in the 1-6 GHz frequency band,…
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said a Wednesday order. The company needed a waiver of Part 15 rules, which don’t allow use of GPR for agriculture, OET said. “Our action here will permit the use of GPR technology in a variety of agricultural applications, such as mapping soil conditions and harvesting crops precisely and efficiently,” OET said. “This waiver is in the public interest because this device poses no greater risk of causing harmful interference to authorized users of this spectrum than those devices already permitted under the existing rules, while providing for innovative uses of GPR technology that will benefit the public through improved farming operations and higher crop yields.”