A tradeoff investigation for the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter design

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5660, Issue , 2004, Pages 117-127

  Gunderson, K ^a   Thomas, N ^a   Spohn, T ^b   Seiferlin, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Instruments: BELA; Laser altimeter; Missions: BepiColombo; Planets: Mercury

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; INSTRUMENTS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANETS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

BEPICOLOMBO; BEPICOLOMBO LASER ALTIMETER (BELA); LASER ALTIMETERS; MERCURY; MISSIONS;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

EID: 20344373157     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.578722     Document Type: Conference Paper

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