Vertical roughness of Mars from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 381-384

  Garvin, James B ^a   Frawley, James J ^b   Abshire, James B ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Herring Bay Geophysics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ARID REGIONS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

MARS ORBITER LASER ALTIMETERS (MOLA);

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

LASER METHOD; MARS; PLANETARY LANDFORM; PLANETARY SURFACE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EQUATORIAL BANDS; HIGHER LATITUDES; LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY; MARS ORBITER LASER ALTIMETERS; MARTIAN SURFACE; NON-GAUSSIAN; PULSEWIDTHS; SPATIAL SCALE;

EID: 0033084058     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900309     Document Type: Article

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