The ICESat-2 laser altimetry mission

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 735-751

  Abdalati, Waleed ^a   Zwally, H Jay ^b   Bindschadler, Robert ^b   Csatho, Bea ^c   Farrell, Sinead Louise ^e   Fricker, Helen Amanda ^d   Harding, David ^b   Kwok, Ronald ^f   Lefsky, Michael ^g   Markus, Thorsten ^b   Marshak, Alexander ^b   Neumann, Thomas ^b   Palm, Stephen ^h   Schutz, Bob ⁱ   Smith, Ben ^j   Spinhirne, James ^k   Webb, Charles ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^h SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

ⁱ The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Ice sheets; ICESat 2; Laser altimetry; NASA; Satellite; Sea ice; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; GLACIERS; NASA; SATELLITES; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; VEGETATION;

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; ICE , CLOUD AND LAND ELEVATION SATELLITES; ICE SHEET; ICESAT-2; LAND ELEVATION SATELLITES; LASER ALTIMETRY; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; VEGETATION CANOPY HEIGHT;

ICE CONTROL;

EID: 77952271192     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2034765     Document Type: Article

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