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Del Palmer
post May 19 2008, 10:00 PM
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Under contract from NASA, Rochester Institute of Technology is developing an imaging LIDAR for planetary mapping. Swaths of entire scenes with an accuracy of 1 cm?! Sweet!




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monty python
post May 20 2008, 04:50 AM
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QUOTE (Del Palmer @ May 19 2008, 05:00 PM) *
Under contract from NASA, Rochester Institute of Technology is developing an imaging LIDAR for planetary mapping. Swaths of entire scenes with an accuracy of 1 cm?! Sweet!


To make this a practical tool, we need laser com. to earth. How close are we?

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- Del Palmer   Imaging LIDAR   May 19 2008, 10:00 PM
- - nprev   Nice, but it doesn't cite specific wavelengths...   May 19 2008, 10:16 PM
- - monty python   QUOTE (Del Palmer @ May 19 2008, 05:00 PM...   May 20 2008, 04:50 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (monty python @ May 20 2008, 05:50 ...   May 20 2008, 06:42 AM
- - edstrick   The press release talks about "optical and ul...   May 20 2008, 07:51 AM

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