NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Airborne pdf

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Airborne

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Horizontal variations in the atmospheric refractivity are a limiting error source for many precise laser and radio space geodetic techniques. This experiment was designed to directly measure horizontal variations in atmospheric refractivity, for the first time, by using 2 color laser ranging measurements to an aircraft. The 2 color laser system at the Goddard Optical Research Facility (GORF) ranged to a cooperative laser target package on a T-39 aircraft. Circular patterns which extended from the southern edge of the Washington D.C. Beltway to the southern edge of Baltimore, MD were flown counter clockwise around Greenbelt, MD. Successful acquisition, tracking, and ranging for 21 circular paths were achieved on three flights in August 1992, resulting in over 20,000 two color ranging measurements

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 6/1/1993
• Year: 1993
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTION, COLOR, GEODESY, LASER RANGE FINDERS, LASER TARGETS, RANGEFINDING, TARGET ACQUISITION, RESEARCH FACILITIES, T-39 AIRCRAFT, Millar, Pamela S., Abshire, James B., Mcgarry, Jan F., Zagwodzki, Thomas W., Pacini, Linda K

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