Laser altimetry and the ice, cloud, and land elevation satellite (ICESat)

Robert E. Schultz

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1999),
paper CFK1

Laser altimetry and the ice, cloud, and land elevation satellite (ICESat)

Robert E. Schultz

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 1999

Baltimore, Maryland United States
23–26 May 1999
ISBN: 1-55752-570-6

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R. E. Schultz, "Laser altimetry and the ice, cloud, and land elevation satellite (ICESat)," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, C. Chang-Hasnain, W. Knox, J. Kafka, and K. Vahala, eds., OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1999), paper CFK1.

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Abstract

In July 2001, NASA will launch a spaceborne laser altimeter into a near polar, near-circular orbit to measure changes in polar ice-sheet topography, as well as along-track land and ocean topography and atmospheric characteristics.

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