laser altimeter

C41612
concept

A laser altimeter is a remote sensing instrument that measures the distance from the sensor to a surface by timing the round-trip travel of laser pulses, enabling precise elevation or topographic mapping.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
laser altimeter canonical 2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: laser altimeter
Generated description
A laser altimeter is a remote sensing instrument that measures the distance from the sensor to a surface by timing the round-trip travel of laser pulses, enabling precise elevation or topographic mapping.

Instances (2)

Instance Via concept surface
Mercury Laser Altimeter
OLA