Polarization portrait of the Arago point: Video-polarimetric imaging of the neutral points of skylight polarization

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 333-339

  Horváth, Gábor ^a   Gál, József ^a   Pomozi, István ^a   Wehner, Rüdiger ^b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; IMAGING; LIGHT; POLARIMETRY; POLARIZATION; SUN; TELEVISION CAMERA;

EID: 0031857199     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001140050510     Document Type: Article

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