Coherent Doppler lidar measurements of winds in the weak signal regime

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 3491-3499

  Frehlich, Rod ^a   Hannon, Stephen M ^b   Henderson, Sammy W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Division of Coherent Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser radar; Lidar; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

LIDAR;

EID: 0031395905     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.003491     Document Type: Article

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