in July 2016 on a Delta II rocket from
Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
ICESat-2 will carry the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) and collect
data to a latitudinal limit of
88 degrees. In contrast to Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
(GLAS) on ICESat, ATLAS employs a 6-beam micro-pulse laser photon-counting approach.
It uses a high repetition rate (10 kHz; 70 cm
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