Automated lidar transmitter for multiparameter investigations within the arctic atmosphere

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 2 I, 1999, Pages 748-755

  Fiedler, Jens ^a   Von Cossart, Götz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Digital control; Laser beam steering; Laser radar; Laser stability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RADAR; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TRANSMITTERS;

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS; AUTOMATED LIDAR TRANSMITTERS; LASER BEAM STEERING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033098904     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.752191     Document Type: Article

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