The future of lidar in planetary science
Lidar has enabled advances in the knowledge of the Solar System through geophysical and atmospheric studies of the Moon, Mercury, Mars, and several asteroids. The technique will continue to be used to obtain high-precision topographic data from orbit, but new techniques on the horizon are suited to...
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| description | Lidar has enabled advances in the knowledge of the Solar System through geophysical and atmospheric studies of the Moon, Mercury, Mars, and several asteroids. The technique will continue to be used to obtain high-precision topographic data from orbit, but new techniques on the horizon are suited to uniquely address fundamental planetary science questions related to the evolution of airless bodies, volatile delivery and sequestration, atmospheric transport, and small body formation and evolution. This perspective highlights the history of lidar in planetary science and identifies several measurement approaches that may be adopted in the coming years. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3dbe1918b04943cca38f6f4c5ed571742023-01-03T11:12:12ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Remote Sensing2673-61872022-10-01310.3389/frsen.2022.10424601042460The future of lidar in planetary scienceDaniel R. CremonsLidar has enabled advances in the knowledge of the Solar System through geophysical and atmospheric studies of the Moon, Mercury, Mars, and several asteroids. The technique will continue to be used to obtain high-precision topographic data from orbit, but new techniques on the horizon are suited to uniquely address fundamental planetary science questions related to the evolution of airless bodies, volatile delivery and sequestration, atmospheric transport, and small body formation and evolution. This perspective highlights the history of lidar in planetary science and identifies several measurement approaches that may be adopted in the coming years.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsen.2022.1042460/fulllidarplanetary sciencetopographyaltimetryreflectancemapping |
| spellingShingle | Daniel R. Cremons The future of lidar in planetary science Frontiers in Remote Sensing lidar planetary science topography altimetry reflectance mapping |
| title | The future of lidar in planetary science |
| title_full | The future of lidar in planetary science |
| title_fullStr | The future of lidar in planetary science |
| title_full_unstemmed | The future of lidar in planetary science |
| title_short | The future of lidar in planetary science |
| title_sort | future of lidar in planetary science |
| topic | lidar planetary science topography altimetry reflectance mapping |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsen.2022.1042460/full |
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