Amazon Submits Drone Test Results to FCC
Amazon submitted data on recent drone test flights to the FCC as part of its advocacy for allowing unmanned aerial vehicle radars in the 60 GHz band (see 2210200058). The company also met with staff from the Office of Engineering…
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and Technology, said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 21-264. “Amazon discussed why unlicensed spectrum in the 60 GHz band is the only spectrum band with the necessary bandwidth to detect targets with challenging cross sections that otherwise are difficult to detect using other sensor modalities,” the company said: “The 60-64 GHz spectrum range provides sufficient bandwidth and range resolution to detect objects such as power lines, cables, and trees with challenging profiles. Amazon reiterated how we evaluated a number of alternate sensor modalities, including lidar and sonar, before selecting 60 GHz radar as the optimal solution for this application.”