Dual-wavelength correlation measurements with an airborne pulsed carbon dioxide lidar system
- 1 December 1982
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 7 (12) , 584-586
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.7.000584
Abstract
Dual-wavelength correlation data are presented for ground-level and airborne measurements of topographic and ocean backscatter near the 9.5μm wavelength. Data were acquired with a pulsed carbon dioxide, dual-laser, dual-wavelength lidar system. The best system performance gave a dual-wavelength uncorrelated noise component of 2.8% and 9% standard deviation for ground-based and airborne data, respectively. This sets one limit on lidar measurement accuracy with a single pulse pair.Keywords
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