Overview of ICESat's Laser Measurements of Polar Ice, Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land

By H. Zwally, Bob E. Schutz, W. Abdalati, J. Abshire, Charles R. Bentley, A. Brenner, J. Bufton, J. Dezio, David Hancock, David J. Harding and 6 more. 2002

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change

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Influence of measurement set-up of ground-based LiDAR for derivation of tree structure (2006, background): “, 1999) at vertical downward angles and potentially even with space-borne sensors (Zwally et al., 2002).”
Full-waveform topographic lidar : State-of-the-art (2009, background): “The Gaussian model is sufficient for most applications, especially for large-footprint lidar data (Zwally et al., 2002; Wagner et al., 2006).”
The Mercury Laser Altimeter Instrument for the MESSENGER Mission (2007, background): “…(MOLA-2; Smith et al. 1998), two Shuttle Laser Altimeters (SLA-1 and SLA-2; Garvin et al. 1998), the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System on the Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (GLAS/ICESAT; Zwally et al. 2002), and the airborne Microchip Laser Altimeter System Microaltimeter (Degnan 2002).”
Accuracy assessment of the global TanDEM-X Digital Elevation Model with GPS data (2018, background): “A potential existing data set that fulfils the demanded requirements is the ICESat GLA14 elevation product (Zwally, 2002; Carabajal and Harding, 2005).”
Cloud and aerosol measurements from GLAS: Overview and initial results (2005, methodology): “As part of the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) project, the GLAS instrument is intended as a laser sensor fulfilling complementary requirements for several earth science disciplines [Zwally et al., 2002; Spinhirne and Palm, 1996].”
A Reconciled Estimate of Ice-Sheet Mass Balance (2012, methodology): “A first satellite altimetry estimate of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance was computed using a definition of the ice sheet lateral extent based on ICESat altimetry (113) drawn on surface vector maps derived from the 1-km DEM of Greenland developed from ICESat/GLAS data (114; 115).”
One-Centimeter Orbit Determination for Jason-1: New GPS-Based Strategies (2004, background): “On ICESat, for example, the timing pulse from the receiver plays an important role in the accurate time tagging of the laser altimeter data (Zwally et al. 2002).”
Analysis of full-waveform LiDAR data for forestry applications: a review of investigations and methods (2011, background): “FW LiDAR has provided improved height estimations (Duong et al. 2008), point den sity measurements (Chauve et al. 2008) and range determinations (Zwally et al. 2002) over discrete-return LiDAR methods.”