An overview of LITE: NASA's lidar in-space technology experiment

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 164-180

  Winker, David M ^a   Couch, Richard H ^a   Mccormick, M Patrick ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; CLOUDS; EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GEODETIC SATELLITES; PERFORMANCE; SPACE FLIGHT;

FREE FLYING SATELLITE PLATFORMS; IN SPACE TECHNOLOGY EXPERIMENT; SPACE LIDAR; STRATOSPHERE;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0030080994     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.482227     Document Type: Article

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