Spaceborne laser-altimeter-pointing bias calibration from range residual analysis

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 374-384

  Luthcke, S B ^a   Rowlands, David D ^b   McCarthy, John J ^a   Pavlis, Despina E ^a   Stoneking, Eric ^c  

^a Raytheon ITSS   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MANEUVERABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LASER ALTIMETRY;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0033713742     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3571     Document Type: Article

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