Title :
Space-based laser altimetry for topographic tie-point production
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Terrestrial Phys., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. The related techniques of laser altimetry and surface lidar are now being demonstrated from spacecraft experiments in low Earth orbit. There have been two flights of the shuttle laser altimeter (SLA), one on STS-72 in January 1996 and the second on STS-85 in August 1997. The SLA measured laser range to the surface and the digitized waveform of the laser-pulse echo from the surface along the nadir track of the space shuttle.
Keywords :
airborne radar; echo; optical radar; radar altimetry; radar cross-sections; remote sensing by laser beam; space vehicles; digitized waveform; laser altimetry; laser range; laser-pulse echo; low Earth orbit; nadir track; shuttle laser altimeter; space shuttle; space-based laser altimetry; spacecraft experiments; surface lidar; topographic tie-point production; Antarctica; Laser radar; Optical design; Optical surface waves; Production; Semiconductor lasers; Space shuttles; Surface emitting lasers; Surface topography; Telescopes;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-339-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.1998.676464
