Spaceborne lidar calibration from cirrus and molecular backscatter returns

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2285-2290

  Reagan, J A ^a   Wang, X ^a   Osborn, M T ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cirrus backscatter; Lidar callibration; Spaceborne lidar

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; CALIBRATION; CLOUDS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACE APPLICATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AEROSOL SCATTERING; CIRRUS CLOUD; MOLECULAR BACKSCATTERING; MOLECULAR NORMALIZATION; SHUTTLE MISSION; SPACEBORNE LIDAR;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0036821673     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.802464     Document Type: Article

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