Airborne polarized lidar detection of scattering layers in the ocean

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 4353-4364

  Vasilkov, Alexander P ^a   Goldin, Yury A ^b   Gureev, Boris A ^b   Hoge, Frank E ^c   Swift, Robert N ^c   Wright, C Wayne ^c  

^a RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER;

LIDAR DETECTION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0037485694     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.004353     Document Type: Article

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