• DocumentCode
    1045357
  • Title

    Preventing Asteroid Earth Impacts With Laser Technology: Progress and Prospects

  • Author

    Fork, Richard

  • Volume
    95
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    5/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    847
  • Lastpage
    848
  • Abstract
    Presents an opinion to continue studying the development of a laser based active sensing system for detecting, characterizing and deflecting asteroids.
  • Keywords
    Belts; Earth; Gold; Humans; Laser radar; Light scattering; Masers; Optical scattering; Optical sensors; Radar scattering;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9219
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JPROC.2007.893244
  • Filename
    4266875