Altimeter (2069 bytes)
1: ... object above a fixed level. For example, a laser altimeter can measure height from a [[spacecraft]] above an...
3: ... one millibar per 27 feet close to sea level. The altimeter is calibrated to show the pressure directly as al...
5: ...n airfield is called the [[QFE]] of the field. An altimeter cannot however be adjusted for variations in air ...
7: In a spreadsheet, the calibration formula for an altimeter (up to 36090 feet) can be written as:
13: ... from the surface back to the aircraft. The radar altimeter is used to measure the exact height during the la...

QNH (1251 bytes)
3: ... landing. The lowest forecast value of QNH for an altimeter setting region is called the "regional pressure s...

Jason 1 (1144 bytes)
5: * Poseidon 2 - [[Nadir]] [[Radar]] [[Altimeter]] using [[C band]] and [[Ku band]] for measuring ...
6: ...iometer]] (JMR) - measures [[water vapor]] along altimeter path to correct for pulse delay
9: ...s to track the satellite and calibrate and verify altimeter measurements.

QFE (1407 bytes)
1: ...ad height above a particular runway threshold. An altimeter set to QFE will therefore read zero when on the g...

Automatic Terminal Information Service (1248 bytes)
1: ...mation, such as [[weather]], active runway, and [[altimeter]] settings. Pilots usually listen to an available...
5: ..., dew-point eight, wind three zero zero at eight. Altimeter two niner niner sever. Runway three one in use. G...

Jason-1 (460 bytes)
1: The '''Jason-1''' [[satellite]] altimeter is a science project to measure the [[ocean]] sur...

Venera 15 and 16 (2908 bytes)
15: ...aft axis by 10 degrees. During imaging, the radio altimeter would be lined up with the center of the planet (...

European Remote-Sensing Satellite (1740 bytes)
4: * A [[nadir]] pointing [[Radar]] [[Altimeter]] operating in the [[Ku band]]
10: ...lector]] was used for calibrating the [[Radar]] [[Altimeter]] to within 10[[centimetre|cm]].

Faucett Flight 251 (552 bytes)
3: ...ing to land. The crew had been issued an outdated altimeter setting.

Dynamic sea surface topography (556 bytes)
1: ...nity]] at depth. In recent years, [[satellite]] [[altimeter|altimetry]] systems have made it possible to meas...

Pressure altitude (720 bytes)
1: ...titude''' is the [[indicated altitude]] when an [[altimeter]] is set to 1013 hPa (29.92 inHg US and Canada). ...

Ramstein (807 bytes)
1: ...aircraft had been incorrectly input so that the [[altimeter]] gave an inaccurate reading to the pilot flying ...

Silva (990 bytes)
8: ...ompasses]] on the market. They also manufacture [[altimeter]]s and [[map measure]]s.

Envisat (2460 bytes)
9: * RA-2 ([[Radar]] [[Altimeter]] 2) is a dual frequency [[Nadir]] pointing Radar...
10: ...phere|atmosphere]] and give corrections for the [[Altimeter]]

Argo (oceanography) (971 bytes)
5: ...hip of the project with the [[Jason-1]] satellite altimeter mission.

Atmospheric pressure (6521 bytes)
36: ... of making this reduction differs slightly. See [[altimeter]].
38: ...barometric altimeter setting which will cause the altimeter to read altitude above mean sea level in the vici...
40: ... barometric altimeter setting which will cause an altimeter to read height above a particular runway threshol...

Luna 18 (3635 bytes)
52: |''' Radio altimeter :'''|| Density of lunar topsoil
61: ...blished data from Luna 18’s continuous-wave radio altimeter that determined the mean density of the lunar top...

Venera 4 (1186 bytes)
6: ...d released two thermometers, a barometer, a radio altimeter, and atmospheric density gauge, 11 gas analyzers,...

Fuse (explosives) (1507 bytes)
15: ... level]] by means of a [[barometer|barometric]] [[altimeter]]

SELENE (1568 bytes)
7: ...nts carries are imagers, a radar sounder, a laser altimeter, an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer and a gamma-r...

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