Efficient technique to determine backscattered light power for various atmospheric and oceanic sounding and imaging systems

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1338-1346

  Katsev, Iosif L ^a   Zege, Eleonora P ^a   Prikhach, Alexander S ^a   Polonsky, Igor N ^a  

^a B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Backscattering; Clouds; Headlights; Image transfer; Laser sounding; Vision and location systems

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLOUDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HEADLIGHTS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RADAR; SURFACES; VISION;

BACKSCATTERING INTERFERENCE; IMAGE TRANSFER; OPTICAL VISION AND LOCATION SYSTEMS; SMALL ANGLE DIFFUSION APPROXIMATION;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0031168353     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.14.001338     Document Type: Article

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