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Spaceborne LiDAR Systems: Evolution, Capabilities, and Challenges [PDF]
SensorsIn the realm of earth observation and space exploration, LiDAR technology offers humanity insights into the dynamics of our planet and beyond. This paper reviews spaceborne LiDAR instruments with attention to their evolution, capabilities, and ...
Tomáš Gotthans +2 more
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Requirements for a global lidar system: spaceborne lidar with wall-to-wall coverage [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Lidar is the optimum technology for measuring bare-Earth elevation beneath, and the structure of, vegetation. Consequently, airborne laser scanning (ALS) is widely employed for use in a range of applications.
Steven Hancock +4 more
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SOLS: An Open-Source Spaceborne Oceanic Lidar Simulator
Remote Sensing, 2022 In recent years, oceanic lidar has seen a wide range of oceanic applications, such as optical profiling and detecting bathymetry. Furthermore, spaceborne lidars, CALIOP and ICESat-2, designed for atmospheric and ice science applications, have been used ...
Zhenhua Zhang, Zhihua Mao, Peng Chen
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Spaceborne Lidar in the Study of Marine Systems [PDF]
Annual Review of Marine Science, 2018 Satellite passive ocean color instruments have provided an unbroken ∼20-year record of global ocean plankton properties, but this measurement approach has inherent limitations in terms of spatial-temporal sampling and ability to resolve vertical structure within the water column.
Yongxiang Hu +2 more
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A Semianalytic Monte Carlo Simulator for Spaceborne Oceanic Lidar: Framework and Preliminary Results
Remote Sensing, 2020 Spaceborne lidar (light detection and ranging) is a very promising tool for the optical properties of global atmosphere and ocean detection. Although some studies have shown spaceborne lidar’s potential in ocean application, there is no spaceborne lidar ...
Dong Liu, Cedric Jamet, Zhihua Mao
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International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2023 The forest canopy height is a key indicator for measuring global forest carbon stocks. Spaceborne LiDAR, a satellite remote sensing technology, plays an essential role in large-scale canopy height estimations.
, Weiyue Li, Han Yue
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Remote Sensing, 2023 To provide references for the design of the lab’s upcoming prototype of the compact spaceborne lidar with a high-repetition-rate laser (CSLHRL), in this paper, the detection signal of spaceborne lidar was simulated by the measured signal of ground-based ...
Jianfeng Chen, Ji Jie, Kunming Xing
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Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 2022 The performance of a spaceborne Raman lidar offering measurements of water vapor, temperature, aerosol backscatter and extinction is assessed statistically by use of a lidar simulator and a global model to provide inputs for simulation.
Paolo Di Girolamo +2 more
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Remote Sensing, 2021 The spaceborne double-pulse integrated-path differential absorption (IPDA) light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system was found to be helpful in observing atmospheric CO2 and understanding the carbon cycle.
Yanguang Sun, Yadan Zhu, Juxin Yang
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Spatial effects analysis of natural forest canopy cover based on spaceborne LiDAR and geostatistics [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceQingtai Shu, Lei Xi, Shaolong Luo
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