Laboratory and airborne experiments have proven the feasibility and demonstrated the techniques of an airborne pulsed laser system for rapidly mapping coastal water bathymetry. Water depths of 10 plus/minus 0,25 m were recorded in waters having an effective attenuation coefficient of 0,175 m -1. A 2-MW peak power Nd:YAG pulsed laser was flown at an altitude of 600 m. An advanced system, incorporating a mirror scanner, a high pulsed rate laser, and a good signal processor, could survey coastal zones at the rate of several square miles per hour.
Airborne bathymetric charting using pulsed blue-green lasers
Aufzeichnung von Wassertiefen vom Flugzeug aus mit Hilfe gepulster Blau-Gruen-Laser
Applied Optics ; 16 , 1 ; 46-56
1977
11 Seiten, 13 Bilder, 5 Tabellen, 12 Quellen
Article (Journal)
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