Methods and systems for determining the available storage capacity of an enclosed space

Abstract

The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for determining the available storage capacity of an enclosed space using radar-based digital terrain modeling. At a high-level, embodiments of the present disclosure may determine the available storage capacity of a certain space by using one or more radars to transmit one or more radio-frequency signals through the space and receive various reflections or echoes of those signals. These received echoes may be processed to determine—for a grid dividing the overall space into a series of right rectangular prisms stacked into columns—the highest (i.e., closest to the ceiling of the space) right rectangular prism (RRP) in each column that is at least partially occupied by a physical object. For each column, the highest RRP and any RRPs below it may be marked as occupied and any RRPs above the highest RRP may be marked as unoccupied.