ICESat altimetry data product verification at white sands space harbor

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 147-155

  Magruder, Lori A ^a   Webb, Charles E ^a   Urban, Timothy J ^a   Silverberg, Eric C ^a   Schutz, Bob E ^a  

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

Author keywords

Altimetry; Calibration; Signal detection; Time measurement

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; SENSORS; SIGNAL DETECTION; TIME MEASUREMENT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ALTIMETER FOOTPRINTS; CORNER CUBE RETROREFLECTORS; LASER SPOT GEOLOCATION; WHITE SANDS SPACE HARBOR (WSSH);

RADIO ALTIMETERS;

EID: 33846222321     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.885070     Document Type: Article

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