System and method for driving range shot travel path characteristics

A method for determining golf shot characteristics for golf shots taken from a plurality of hitting bays located in a launch area, comprising:

• capturing radar data, from a radar sensor arrangement, for golf shots launched from the hitting bays;
• capturing image data from an imager having a field of view including at least a first one of the hitting bays;
• using a processing arrangement, determining an origination hitting bay from which each of the golf shots was launched based on the radar data and the imager data;
• using the processing arrangement, determining shot characteristics for each of the golf shots launched from at least the first one of the hitting bays based on the image data;
• using the processing arrangement, determining shot characteristics for each of the golf shots launched from the hitting bays based on the radar data;
• using the processing arrangement, comparing the shot characteristics determined based on the imager data to the shot characteristics determined based on the radar data to identify golf shots represented in the image data for which a matching golf shot is represented in the radar data, the processing arrangement determining that the shot characteristics based on the imager data of a first golf shot represent the same golf shot as a second golf shot when the shot characteristics of the second golf shot based on the radar data indicate a launch time and an origination hitting bay the same as indicated by the shot characteristics of the first golf shot;
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• supplying to a device associated with the origination hitting bay of the first golf shot the shot characteristics based on the image data when no matching golf shot for the first shot is found and, when a matching shot for the first golf shot is found, supplying to the device associated with the origination hitting bay of the first golf shot the shot characteristics for the matching shot based on the radar data.