Well done, Ken! I thought I mentioned this in an essay, but for the life of me can't find it. Yours is cleaner, more to the point than my rambling ways, and I may need to emulate this, as we're in the process of creating a MUFONTexas web page, and every one always asks about equipment.
If I write it, I will do the test run here on medium and link your article here. I think I would include the LIDAR technique, and MADAR III node.