Slope Imaging Multi-polarization Photon-counting Lidar

Status

Operated By
PI

SIMPL is an advanced-technology airborne laser altimeter developed through NASA’s ESTO Instrument Incubator Program. Simultaneously measures surface topography, roughness and slope as well as scattering properties to differentiate surface types. SIMPL is a technology and remote sensing pathfinder for next-generation, high-efficiency, spaceflight laser altimeters. Developed with a focus on ice sheet elevation and its change, sea ice thickness and its change, and icy moon surface processes.

Instrument Type
Lidar
Measurements
Sea Ice Surface Elevation,
Ice Sheet Thickness
Aircraft
Learjet 25,
P-3 Orion - WFF,
Twin Otter - GRC
Point(s) of Contact
David Harding
(POC; PI)

 

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