The DLR ground station in the optical payload experiment (STROPEX) - Results of the atmospheric measurement instruments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6304, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Knapek, Markus ^a   Horwath, Joachim ^a   Perlot, Nicolas ^a   Wilkerson, Brandon ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

CAPANINA; High altitude platform; Optical free space communications; Stratospheric platform

Indexed keywords

GROUND STATIONS; HIGH ALTITUDE PLATFORM; OPTICAL FREE SPACE COMMUNICATIONS; STRATOSPHERIC PLATFORM;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTICAL LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33750737299     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.679004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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