A laser altimeter performance model and its application to BELA

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3308-3318

  Gunderson, Kurt ^a   Thomas, Nicolas ^a   Rohner, Marcel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Leica Geosystems AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Altimetry; Extraterrestrial exploration; Laser applications; Modeling

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; PLANETARY LANDERS; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

BEPICOLOMBO LASER ALTIMETER (BELA); EXTRATERRESTRIAL EXPLORATION; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIER BANDWIDTHS;

RADIO ALTIMETERS;

EID: 33750809396     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.880623     Document Type: Article

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