The center-of-mass correction of the geodetic satellite ajisai for single-photon laser ranging

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2011-2018

  Otsubo, Toshimichi ^a   Amagai, Jun ^a   Kunimori, Hiroo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTONS;

CENTER-OF-MASS CORRECTION; MULTIPHOTON SYSTEMS; SPACE GEODESY;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032659931     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.774712     Document Type: Article

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