Multiple scattering of a photon flux: Implications for the integral average cosine of the underwater light field

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 3134-3140

  Kirk, John T O ^a  

^a Kirk Marine Optics   (Australia)

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EID: 0012846404     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.003134     Document Type: Article

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