Workshop - Amundsen Sea Embayment Tectonic and Glacial History - Programme and Abstracts [PDF]
, 2011 Overall Objective: Review existing data and identify priorities for future geoscience research (terrestrial, marine and airborne) in the Amundsen Sea embayment (ASE) region required to develop a better understanding of the past, present and future ...
Anderson, John B. +3 more
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Laser vision : lidar as a transformative tool to advance critical zone science [PDF]
, 2015 © The Author(s), 2015. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 19 (2015): 2881-2897, doi:10.5194/hess-19-2881-2015.Observation ...
Barnhart, T. B. +21 more
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Space Flight LiDARs, Navigation & Science Instrument Implementations: Lasers, Optoelectronics, Integrated Photonics, Fiber Optic Subsystems and Components [PDF]
For the past 25 years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center's Photonics Group in the Engineering Directorate has been substantially contributing to the flight design, development, production, testing and ...
Flores, Hali L. +4 more
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An Algorithm for Detection of Ground and Canopy Cover in Micropulse Photon-Counting Lidar Altimeter Data in Preparation of the ICESat-2 Mission [PDF]
The Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-II (ICESat-2) mission has been selected by NASA as a Decadal Survey mission, to be launched in 2016. Mission objectives are to measure land ice elevation, sea ice freeboard/ thickness and changes in these ...
Brenner, Anita +5 more
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Revision of the Atmospheric Delay Correction for ICESat-2 Laser Altimeter Ranges [PDF]
In 2001 Herring and Quinn proposed the algorithm for correction for atmospheric delay to ICESat-1 GLAS laser altimeter. The purpose of this document is to provide a revision of the algorithm suitable for processing the data from ICESat-2 mission ...
Luthcke, Scott, Petrov, Leonid
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Airborne Polarimetric, Two-Color Laser Altimeter Measurements of Lake Ice Cover: A Pathfinder for NASA's ICESat-2 Spaceflight Mission [PDF]
The ICESat-2 mission will continue NASA's spaceflight laser altimeter measurements of ice sheets, sea ice and vegetation using a new measurement approach: micropulse, single photon ranging at 532 nm.
Dabney, Philip +5 more
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International Journal of Digital EarthThe littoral zone is crucial in the aquatic ecosystem of lakes, and water depth is often insufficient when using the traditional zigzag echo-sounding method.
Baojin Qiao +3 more
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Using NASA's Molecular Adsorber Coating Technology During Thermal Vacuum Testing to Protect Critical Laser Flight Optics on the ATLAS Instrument [PDF]
The Molecular Adsorber Coating (MAC) is a sprayable coatings technology that was developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The coating was designed to address molecular contamination concerns on or near sensitive surfaces and instruments ...
Abraham, Nithin S., Jallice, Doris E.
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Water Resources ResearchRecent studies show that the Ice, Clouds, and Land Elevation Satellite‐2 (ICESat‐2) can achieve decimeter‐level accuracy over forested and mountainous sites in the western United States, as well as over the glaciers of Alaska.
Zachary Fair +6 more
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Laser Transmitter Design and Performance for the Slope Imaging Multi-Polarization Photon-Counting Lidar (SIMPL) Instrument [PDF]
The Slope Imaging Multi-polarization Photon-counting Lidar (SIMPL) instrument is a polarimetric, two-color, multibeam push broom laser altimeter developed through the NASA Earth Science Technology Office Instrument Incubator Program and has been flown ...
Dabney, Philip W. +2 more
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