Second generation airborne 3D imaging lidars based on photon counting

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6771, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Degnan, John ^a   Wells, David ^a   Machan, Roman ^a   Leventhal, Ed ^a  

^a SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

3D imaging; Lidar; Microchip laser; Optical scanner; Photomultiplier; Photon counting; Polarimetry; UAV

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; SOILS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VEGETATION;

3D IMAGING; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT (DOE); MICROCHIP LASERS; OPTICAL SCANNERS; PHOTON-COUNTING;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 42449123734     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.732086     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

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2. J. Degnan and J. Marzouk, 2003 "An inexpensive 3D imaging lidar for contiguous decimeter resolution topographic mapping from a high altitude aircraft", Proc. AMOS 2003 Technical Conference, Maui, HA, Sept. 8-13, 2003.
3. J. Degnan, "Photon-Counting Multikilohertz Microlaser Altimeters for Airborne and Spaceborne Topographic Measurements", Journal of Geodynamics (Special Issue on Laser Altimetry), pp.503-549, November, 2002.
4. J. Degnan, "A Conceptual Design for a Spaceborne 3D Imaging Lidar", J. e&i Electrotechnik und Informationstechnik (Austria), Vol.4, pp. 99-106, April, 2002.