The Goddard Space Flight Center Laser and Electro-Optics Branch

Author

Heaps, W.S.

fYear

2000

fDate

24-28 July 2000

Abstract

The Laser and Electro-Optics Branch at Goddard Space flight Center was established to provide a focused center of engineering support and technology development in these disciplines with an emphasis on development of space based instruments. The Branch has approximately 15 engineers and technicians with backgrounds in physics, optics, and electrical engineering. Members of the Branch are currently supporting a number of space based lidar efforts as well as several technology efforts aimed at enabling future missions. The largest effort within the Branch is support of the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESAT) carrying the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) instrument.

Keywords

aerospace instrumentation; astronomical instruments; electro-optical devices; geophysical equipment; optical radar; radar altimetry; remote sensing by laser beam; GLAS instrument; Geoscience Laser Altimeter System; Goddard Space Flight Center Laser and Electro-Optics Branch; ICESAT; Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite; space based lidar; Aerospace engineering; Electrical engineering; Ice; Instruments; Laser radar; Laser theory; Lasers and electrooptics; Physics; Space missions; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic-Enhanced Optics, Optical Sensing in Semiconductor Manufacturing, Electro-Optics in Space, Broadband Optical Networks, 2000. Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings

Conference_Location

Aventura, FL, USA

ISSN

1099-4742

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6252-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.2000.869739

Filename

869739