Error analysis for the lidar backward inversion algorithm

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 4461-4474

  Rocadenbosch, Francesc ^a   Comerón, Adolfo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ERROR ANALYSIS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

KLETT METHOD; LIDAR BACKWARD INVERSION ALGORITHMS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0032607771     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004461     Document Type: Article

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