Aerosol and cloud measurements at 532 and 1064 nm by the GLAS polar orbiting lidar instrument

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 6, Issue , 2004, Pages 3956-3959

  Spinhirne, J D ^a   Palm, S P ^b   Hlavka, D L ^b   Hart, W D ^b   Mahesh, A ^b   Welton, E J ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SSAL ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; BANDPASS FILTERS; CLOUDS; DIODES; EARTH (PLANET); OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTONS; SATELLITES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SUN;

EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS); GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEM (GLAS); NORMALIZED ATTENUATED BACKSCATTER (NAB); POLAR ORBITING SATELLITE LIDAR INSTRUMENT;

RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 15944411341     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

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4. Mahesh A., M. A. Gray, S. P. Palm, W. D. Hart and J. D. Spinhirne, "Passive and active detection of clouds: Comparisons between MODIS and GLAS observations," Geophys. Res., in press, 2004.
5. Duda, D. P. J. D. Spinhirne, E. W. Eloranta, "Atmospheric multiple scattering effects on GLAS altimetry - Part I: Calculations of single pulse bias, " IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., 39, p. 92-101, 2001.