Multilateration with the wide-angle airborne laser ranging system: Positioning precision and atmospheric effects

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 3343-3359

  Bock, Olivier ^a,b  

^a Laboratoire Géomatique et Foncier CNAM   (France)

^b INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KALMAN FILTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTIMIZATION; PRECISION ENGINEERING; RANGE FINDERS; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GROUND-BASED CUBE-CORNER RETROREFLECTORS; MULTILATERATIONS; WIDE-ANGLE AIRBORN LASER RANGING SYSTEMS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0032606807     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.003343     Document Type: Article

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