Laser Transmitter Design and Performance for the Slope Imaging Multi-Polarization Photon-Counting Lidar (SIMPL) Instrument

The Slope Imaging Multi-polarization Photon-counting Lidar (SIMPL) instrument is a polarimetric, two-color, multibeam push broom laser altimeter developed through the NASA Earth Science Technology Office Instrument Incubator Program and has been flown successfully on multiple airborne platforms sinc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dabney, Philip W., Harding, David J., Yu, Anthony W.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Communications and Radar
Avionics and Aircraft Instrumentation
Spacecraft Instrumentation and Astrionics
Greenland
Ice Sheet
Sea ice
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20180002959
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Summary:The Slope Imaging Multi-polarization Photon-counting Lidar (SIMPL) instrument is a polarimetric, two-color, multibeam push broom laser altimeter developed through the NASA Earth Science Technology Office Instrument Incubator Program and has been flown successfully on multiple airborne platforms since 2008. In this talk we will discuss the laser transmitter performance and present recent science data collected over the Greenland ice sheet and sea ice in support of the NASA Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2) mission to be launched in 2017.

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