Monte Carlo modeling of underwater-image formation: Validity of the linear and small-angle approximations

Applied Optics

Volumn 34, Issue 24, 1995, Pages 5413-5421

  Jaffe, Jules S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Light scattering; Monte Carlo modeling; Ocean optics; Point spread function

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGERY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; MONTE CARLO MODEL; OCEAN OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; UNDERWATER IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 0029481861     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.34.005413     Document Type: Article

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