Airborne Testing of the TWiLiTE direct detection doppler lidar

16th Coherent Laser Radar Conference 2011, CLRC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 164-167

  Gentry, Bruce ^a   Chen, Huailin ^b   Cervantes, Jaime ^b   MacHan, Roman ^c   Reed, Daniel ^c   Cargo, Ryan ^c   Marx, Catherine ^a   Jordan, Patrick ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NASA; RADAR; SOFTWARE TESTING; STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC DATA; AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS; DIRECT DETECTION DOPPLER LIDAR; ENGINEERING TESTS; GLOBAL HAWKS; INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT; SEVERE STORMS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84991443562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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