Scanning the earth's limb from a high-altitude balloon: The development and flight of a new balloon-based pointing system

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 618-632

  Quine, Brendan M ^a   Strong, Kimberly ^a   Wiacek, Aldona ^a   Wunch, Debra ^a   Anstey, James A ^a   Drummond, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EARTH (PLANET); FLIGHT DYNAMICS; KALMAN FILTERING; MICROCONTROLLERS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTICAL SENSORS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCANNING; SOLAR RADIATION;

HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOONS;

BALLOONS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BALLOON OBSERVATION; INSTRUMENT PLATFORM; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0036563906     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(2002)019<0618:STESLF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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