Modulated lidar system: Experiment vs. theory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4488, Issue , 2002, Pages 25-35

  Mullen, Linda J ^a   Zege, Eleonora P ^b   Katsev, Iosif L ^b   Prikhach, Alexander S ^b  

^a NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND   (United States)

^b Institute of Physics   (United States)

Author keywords

Lidar; Modulation; Radiative transfer equation; Underwater imaging

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BACKSCATTERING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; UNDERWATER IMAGING;

MODULATED LIGHT DETECTING AND RANGING SYSTEM; MULTICOMPONENT METHOD; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION; SMALL ANGLE DIFFUSION APPROXIMATION; UNDERWATER TARGET CONTRAST;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0036398029     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.452829     Document Type: Article

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