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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The Relevance of GLAS/ICESat Elevation Data for the Monitoring of River Networks
The Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) laser altimetry mission from 2003 to 2008 provided an important dataset for elevation measurements.
Jean Stéphane Bailly +3 more
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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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Tracking the thickness of the A68 Iceberg using CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2
Jamie Izzard +3 more
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A Density-Based Multilevel Terrain-Adaptive Noise Removal Method for ICESat-2 Photon-Counting Data. [PDF]
Wang L +5 more
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Tests of Ocean-Tide Models by Analysis of Satellite-To-Satellite Range Measurements: An Update [PDF]
Seven years of GRACE intersatellite range-rate measurements are used to test the new ocean tide model FES2014 and to compare against similar results obtained with earlier models.
Loomis, B.D. +3 more
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Creation of ICESat-2 Footprint Level Global Geodetic Control Points Using Crossover Analysis
Precise measurements of the Earth’s surface are possible using satellite laser altimetry data, as demonstrated by NASA’s ICEsat-2 mission. Recently, the vertical accuracy of ICESat-2 data has been validated to
Amy Neuenschwander +3 more
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Signal Photon Extraction Method for ICESat-2 Data Using Slope and Elevation Information Provided by Stereo Images. [PDF]
Gu L, Fan D, Ji S, Gong Z, Li D, Dong Y.
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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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