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Appl Opt
; 32(33): 6784-8, 1993 Nov 20.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-20856531
ABSTRACT
Most spaceborne lidar applications use cross-track or conical scanning to ensure a global coverage of the investigated areas: the return signal of laser pulses shot at an angle with the nadir is biased by a slanting effect that induces a temporal spreading of the received signal as compared with the return signal of a nadir shot. This paper gives the basic formulas of the return signal for both a topographic target (laser range finders) and a diffuse target (atmospheric lidars).