Two-wavelength lidar inversion algorithm

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1015-1020

  Kunz, Gerard J ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EXTINCTION-TO-BACKSCATTER RATIO; MOLECULAR SCATTERING; TWO WAVELENGTH LIDAR INVERSION ALGORITHM;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0033585692     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.001015     Document Type: Article

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