A general-purpose lidar system model with experimental validation in fog oil smoke conditions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4484, Issue , 2002, Pages 178-185

  Giles, J W ^a   Bankman, I N ^a   Sova, R M ^a   Green, W J ^a   King, T R M ^a   Marcotte, F J ^a   Duncan, D D ^a   Millard, J A ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rayheon Electronic Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscatter; Fog oil smoke; Ladar; Ladar output waveform; Ladar system modeling; Lidar; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; FOG; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SMOKE; SNOW;

FOG OIL SMOKE; LIDAR OUTPUT WAVEFORM;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0036396721     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.452778     Document Type: Article

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