Instrument Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:ola.orex::1.2
NAME The OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) aboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft
TYPE Altimeter
DESCRIPTION The OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) is a 2-axis scanning lidar instrument with a single receiver and two transmitters. The high-energy transmitter is used for ranging and mapping at distances from 1 to 7.5 km; the low-energy transmitter is used at distances of about 200m to 1km.
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REFERENCES M.G. Daly, O.S. Barnouin, C. Dickinson, J. Seabrook, C.L. Johnson, G. Cunningham, T. Haltigin, D. Gaudreau, C. Burnet, I. Aslam, A. Taylor, E.B. Biehaus, W. Boynton, M. Nolan, and D.S. Lauretta, The OSIRIS-REX Laser Altimeter (OLA) Investigation and Instrument, Space Science Reviews, in press, 2018.