The transmitter pointing determination in the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Sirota, J Marcos ^a   Bae, Sungkoo ^b   Millar, Pamela ^c   Mostofi, David ^a   Webb, Charles ^b   Schutz, Bob ^b   Luthcke, Scott ^c  

^a SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA PROCESSING; EARTH SCIENCES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER BEAMS; LASERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ELEVATION CHANGE; GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEM; LASER ALTIMETRY; TRANSMITTER POINTING;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

ALTIMETRY; CALIBRATION; ELEVATION; LASER METHOD;

EID: 29344470849     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024005     Document Type: Article

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