Elevation information in tail (EIT) technique for lidar altimetry

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 14504-14515

  Hu, Yongxiang ^a   Powell, Kathy ^b   Vaughan, Mark ^b   Tepte, Charles ^a   Weimer, Carl ^c   Beherenfeld, Mike ^d   Young, Stuart ^e   Winker, David ^a   Hostetler, Chris ^a   Hunt, William ^b   Kuehn, Ralph ^b   Flittner, David ^a   Cisewski, Mike ^a   Gibson, Gary ^a   Lin, Bing ^a   MacDonnell, David ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW PASS FILTERS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

ELEVATION INFORMATION IN TAIL (EIT); ELEVATION MEASUREMENTS; NATIONAL ELEVATION DATABASE (NED); SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION (SRTM);

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 35949002510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014504     Document Type: Article

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