Wa-LiD: A new LiDAR simulator for waters

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 744-748

  Abdallah, Hani ^a   Baghdadi, Nicolas ^a   Bailly, Jean Stéphane ^a   Pastol, Yves ^b   Fabre, Frédéric ^c  

^a UMR TETIS   (France)

^b SHOM   (France)

^c AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Altimetry; bathymetry; Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS); HawkEye; ICESat; signal to noise ratio (SNR); waveform model

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRY; GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEMS; HAWKEYES; ICESAT; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); WAVEFORM MODELS;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; BATHYMETRY; GEOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SIMULATORS; SUN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84861201668     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2180506     Document Type: Article

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