Determination by spaceborne backscatter lidar of the structural parameters of atmospheric scattering layers

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2001, Pages 3428-3440

  Chazette, Patrick ^a   Pelon, Jacques ^a   Mégie, Gérard ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SPACEBORNE BACKSCATTER LIDAR;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0037825705     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.003428     Document Type: Article

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