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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A Density-Based Multilevel Terrain-Adaptive Noise Removal Method for ICESat-2 Photon-Counting Data. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2023 Wang L +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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Global Aerosol Climatology from ICESat-2 Lidar Observations
Remote SensingThis study presents a global aerosol climatology derived from six years (October 2018–October 2024) of the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) observations, using a U-Net Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) machine learning algorithm for Cloud–Aerosol Discrimination (CAD).
Shi Kuang +5 more
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Creation of ICESat-2 Footprint Level Global Geodetic Control Points Using Crossover Analysis
Remote SensingPrecise 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]
Sensors (Basel), 2023 Gu L, Fan D, Ji S, Gong Z, Li D, Dong Y.
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ICESat‐2 Coastal and Nearshore Bathymetry Product Algorithm Development
Earth and Space ScienceAbstract NASA's ICESat‐2 (Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite‐2) satellite launched in 2018, carrying a single instrument, the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS). The Level 1 science objectives of the mission focus primarily on the cryosphere, with specific interest in monitoring changes in polar ice sheets ...
Lori A. Magruder +5 more
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ICESat-2 for Canopy Cover Estimation at Large-Scale on a Cloud-Based Platform. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2023 Akturk E, Popescu SC, Malambo L.
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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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ICESat-2 river surface slope (IRIS): A global reach-scale water surface slope dataset. [PDF]
Sci Data, 2023 Scherer D +3 more
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