The phrase "altimeter system" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to aviation, meteorology, or any field that involves measuring altitude or elevation.
Example: "The aircraft's altimeter system malfunctioned, causing confusion about its altitude during the flight."
Alternatives: "elevation measurement system" or "altitude measurement system".
The experiment is intended to be Europe's first planetary laser altimeter system.
Magellan also carried a radar altimeter system that measured the planet's surface topography as well as some properties of its surface materials.
The altimeter system, measuring the time it takes light pulses to travel to a reflecting object and back to the satellite, will calculate the precise elevations and positions of ice sheets, icebergs, clouds and land formations.
In this study, waveforms acquired by the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) were combined with SRTM elevations to discriminate the five forest landscape types (LTs) in French Guiana.
Phillips, H. A., Ridgway, J. R., Minster, J.-B., Yi, D. & Bentley, C. Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document Version 2.0: Tidal Corrections Center for Space Research, University of Texas (1999).
The transmitter power-receive aperture product required is comparable to the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) but the number of individual range measurements to the surface is increased by three to four orders of magnitude.
The issues of long-term calibration for the various components of the altimeter measurement system are reviewed in the paper.
Due to the size of Corsica (not a tiny island), the altimeter measurement system (range and corrections) can be contaminated by land.
ADT is the sea surface height above the geoid and was obtained from the Global Ocean Gridded SSALTO multimission ground segment/Data Unification and Altimeter Combination System (DUACS) (L4, delayed time, 0.25 × 0.25 degree grid) (http://misgw-sltac.vlandata.cls.fr:45080/thredds/dodsC/dataset-duacs-rep-global-merged-allsat-phy-l4-v3).
Using continuous GPS observations, we refine estimates of the platform subsidence due most likely to fluid withdrawal linked to oil production and describe the impact on estimates of stability for the altimeter measurement systems.
The probe carried a radar altimeter, video imaging system, and a mass spectrometer, which will be used to search for water.
