I"m thinking animal tracking?
Using one way RF to derive distance can be done with multiple receiving nodes, if you can measure the distance in time of flight and triangulate. Not easy for 25 metres.
Two way RF is a lot easier, you "ping" back and forth hundreds of times between the two transcievers and can then derive distance from the cumulated time of flights - fixed times.
One way can be done if you have 2 signals of differing propagation speeds, like transmit an RF pulse and a sound pulse together, and derive distance from the time difference.
Assuming sound pulses would annoy your animal, you could use an infrared pulse transmitted, and two infrared receivers that detect angular position, then derive distance and position from triangulation.