GLAS is a space lidar on NASA's ICESat Mission. GLAS was qualified and delivered and ICEsat is scheduled for launch in December 2002. This talk summarizes the as-built characteristics of GLAS and its predicted measurement performance.


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    Title :

    Geoscience laser altimeter system (GLAS) for the ICESat mission-pre-launch performance


    Contributors:
    Abshire, J.B. (author) / Xiaoli Sun, (author) / Riris, H. (author) / Sirota, M. (author) / Palm, S. (author) / Ketchum, E.A. (author)


    Publication date :

    2003-01-01


    Size :

    483921 byte



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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