Space Laser Transmitter Development for ICESat-2 Mission

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作者
Yu, Anthony W. [1 ]
Stephen, Mark A. [1 ]
Li, Steve X. [1 ]
Shaw, George B. [1 ]
Seas, Antonios [1 ]
Dowdye, Edward [1 ]
Troupaki, Elisavet [2 ]
Liiva, Peter [2 ]
Poulios, Demetrios [3 ]
Mascetti, Kathy [4 ]
机构
[1] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Laser & Electroopt Branch, MC554, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[2] Sigma Space Corp, Lanham, MD 20706 USA
[3] Amer Univ, Dept Phys, Washington, DC 20016 USA
[4] Orbital Sci Corp, Greenbelt, MD 20770 USA
关键词
LIDAR; Remote Sensing; Space Laser Systems; Laser Altimeter; Space-Qualified Lasers; Micropulse Lidar; ND; POWER; ALTIMETER;
D O I
10.1117/12.843342
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The first NASA Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) was launched in January 2003 and placed into a near-polar orbit whose primary mission was the global monitoring of the Earth's ice sheet mass balance. ICESat has accumulated over 1.8 B shots in space and provided a valuable dataset in the study of ice sheet dynamics over the past few years. NASA is planning a follow-on mission ICESat-2 to be launched tentatively in 2015. In this paper we will discuss the development effort of the laser transmitters for the ICESat-2 mission.
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