NASA's Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) ground calibration data for the Arctic Spring campaign 2019

In pressurized aircraft the transmitted laser pulse travels thru the aircraft’s optical window close to the scan mirror. The optical delay fiber that is necessary to separate the transmit pulse and window reflection as well as other system components introduce a laser time-of-flight range bias that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Studinger, Michael, Manizade, Serdar S., Linkswiler, Matthew A., Yungel, James K.
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Zenodo 2022
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6248437
https://zenodo.org/record/6248437
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Summary:In pressurized aircraft the transmitted laser pulse travels thru the aircraft’s optical window close to the scan mirror. The optical delay fiber that is necessary to separate the transmit pulse and window reflection as well as other system components introduce a laser time-of-flight range bias that needs to be determined from ground calibration measurements. This data set includes ATM waveform data from the T6 and T7 lidars, as well as the true ranges and a MATLAB® function to read ground test waveform data.