Instrument design and in orbit performance of planetary lidars developed at NASA GSFC

Author

Sun, Xiaoli ; Cavanaugh, John F. ; Smith, James C. ; Abshire, James B. ; McGarry, Jan F. ; Neumann, Gregory A. ; Smith, David E. ; Zuber, Maria T.

Author_Institution

NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

5677

Lastpage

5680

Abstract

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has developed a series of space lidars over the past 15 years and successfully mapped Mars, Earth, Mercury and Moon. Each of these space lidars had its special challenges in measurement requirements and operation environments. Each made a major advancement in space lidar technologies. This paper gives a brief overview of these space lidar systems.

Keywords

aerospace instrumentation; optical radar; Earth; Goddard Space Flight Center; Mars; Mercury; Moon; NASA GSFC; in orbit performance; instrument design; operation environments; planetary lidars; space lidar series; space lidar systems; space lidar technologies; Extraterrestrial measurements; Laser radar; Mars; Measurement by laser beam; Receivers; Space vehicles; Surface emitting lasers; Laser altimeter; Lidar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352323

Filename

6352323

Link To Document

https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2231484