Micro Pulse Lidar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 48-55

  Spinhirne, James D ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE DETECTOR; MICRO PULSE LIDAR; SINGLE CARD MULTICHANNEL SCALAR;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0027205753     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.210443     Document Type: Article

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