Extraction of motion parameters of gravity-wave structures from all-sky OH image sequences

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 4433-4442

  Haque, Rezaul ^a   Swenson, Gary R ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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EID: 0006827929     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004433     Document Type: Article

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