Separating the fluorescence and reflectance components of coral spectra

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2001, Pages 3614-3621

  Fuchs, Eran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; IRRADIATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

CORAL SPECTRA;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0000367183     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.003614     Document Type: Article

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