laser altimeter

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laser altimeter [′lā·zər al¦tim·əd·ər]

(navigation)

An altimeter in which a laser beam, modulated by radio frequencies, is directed downward from an aircraft, and the laser light reflected from the terrain is picked up by a telescope system, sensed by a photomultiplier, and phase-compared with the transmitted signal to obtain the round-trip propagation time; the height above ground equals one-half the product of the propagation time and the speed of light.

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Mission equipment includes low light-level camera, infrared line scanner, airborne video recorder and laser altimeter.

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The laser altimeter is extremely important to our understanding of the geological and physical processes on Mars," says James Head, a planetary geologist at Brown University in Providence, R.

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