A laser sounder for measuring atmospheric trace gases from space

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6750, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Riris, Haris ^a   Abshire, James ^a   Allan, Graham ^b   Burris, John ^a   Chen, Jeffrey ^a   Kawa, Stephen ^a   Mao, Jian Ping ^c   Krainak, Michael ^a   Stephen, Mark ^a   Sun, Xiaoli ^a   Wilson, Emily ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c RS Information Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Laser sounder; Lidar; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CO; ATMOSPHERIC TRACE GAS; CARBON UPTAKES; CURRENT ESTIMATES; LIDAR; LONG-TERM MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; MIXING RATIOS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPACE-BORNE LIDARS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING; LASERS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

SPACE OPTICS;

EID: 57549099435     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.737607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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