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Time of Flight Depth Sensor (ToF) - Pros and Cons

Pros - Lightweight - Full frame time-of-flight data (3D array) collected with a single laser pulse - Unambiguous direct calculation of range - Blur-free imager without motion distortion - Co-registeration of range and intensity for each pixel - Perfectly registered pixels within a frame - Ability to represent the camera-oblique objects - No precision scanning mechanism required - 3D flash LIDAR with 2D cameras (EO and IR) to combine 2D texture over 3D depth - Multiple 3D flash LIDAR cameras for full volumetric 3D scene - Lighter and smaller than point scanning systems - Non-moving parts - Lower power consumption - Ability to scan through range-gating, natural obscurants