Simulations of the observation of clouds and aerosols with the experimental lidar in space equipment system

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 3120-3137

  Liu, Zhaoyan ^a   Voelger, Peter ^a   Sugimoto, Nobuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; OPTICAL RADAR; SIGNAL DETECTION;

SPACE EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 0001420103     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.003120     Document Type: Article

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