Uncertainties in ice-sheet altimetry from a spaceborne 1064-nm single-channel lidar due to undetected thin clouds

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 250-259

  Yang, Yuekui ^a   Marshak, Alexander ^b   Várnai, Tamás ^a,b   Wiscombe, Warren ^b   Yang, Ping ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric path delay; Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) II; Ice; Lidar altimetry; Polar cloud; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC PATH DELAY; CLOUD PARTICLE SIZE; CLOUD PARTICLES; CLOUD STATISTICS; FIELD OF VIEWS; FIRST ORDER SCATTERING; GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEM; GREENLAND; ICE SHEET; LAND ELEVATION SATELLITES; LIDAR ALTIMETRY; MICROPHYSICAL MODELS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PATH DELAY; PATH LENGTH; PHASE FUNCTIONS; POLAR CLOUD; SCATTERING EVENTS; SINGLE-CHANNEL; SPACE-BORNE; SPACE-BORNE LIDAR;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; ICE; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PAPER SHEETING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIO ALTIMETERS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTERING;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ICE SHEET; LIDAR; MODIS; PARTICLE SIZE; POLAR FRONT; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SIR;

EID: 73249117366     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2028335     Document Type: Article

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