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TEC supports NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Published Jan. 13, 2012
In December 2010, an ER-2 aircraft lifts off with MABEL from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Palmdale Calif., headed for a forested region in the Sierras. NASA scientists have previously measured tree heights and ground topography here, which will be used to better understand what MABEL "sees" from the sky.
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In December 2010, an ER-2 aircraft lifts off with MABEL from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Palmdale Calif., headed for a forested region in the Sierras. NASA scientists have previously measured tree heights and ground topography here, which will be used to better understand what MABEL "sees" from the sky.

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Jan. 13, 2012

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VICKSBURG, Miss. — Researchers with ERDC's Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) were asked by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center to design a Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) target suitable for use in the testing of the Multiple Altimeter Beam Experimental LiDAR (MABEL) airborne test bed.

MABEL is NASA's platform to test the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICE Sat) 2 LiDAR. ICE Sat 2 is scheduled to be launched in 2016 and will follow ICE Sat 1 as a means to measure polar ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics.

Learn more about NASA's MABEL.