Integrated time-of-flight laser radar

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 996-999

  Palojärvi, Pasi ^a   Määttä, Kari ^a   Kostamovaara, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Laser radar; Laser range finders; Laser transmitter; Optical distance measurement; Time interval measurement; Timing discrimination

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RADAR RECEIVERS; RADAR TRANSMITTERS; RANGE FINDERS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

INTEGRATED TIME OF FLIGHT LASER RADAR;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0031199486     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.650815     Document Type: Article

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