Color and luminance asymmetries in the clear sky

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 458-464

  Hernández Andrés, Javier ^a   Lee, Raymond L ^b   Romero, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

SPECTRORADIOMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

EID: 0037455432     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.000458     Document Type: Article

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