Multilateration with the wide-angle laser ranging system: ranging performance and first ground-based validation experiment

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 2 I, 1999, Pages 739-747

  Bock, Olivier ^a   Thorn, Christian ^a   Kasser, Michel ^a   Pelon, Jacques R ^a  

^a INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

Author keywords

Geodesy; Laser ranging; Multilateration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEODESY; LASER APPLICATIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; OPTIMIZATION; RANGE FINDING;

CUBE CORNER RETROREFLECTORS (CCR); MULTILATERATION; WIDE ANGLE LASER RANGING SYSTEMS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033097919     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.752190     Document Type: Article

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