CELT site testing program

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4840, Issue , 2002, Pages 541-552

  Schöck, Matthias ^a   Erasmus, D André ^d   Djorgovski, S George ^b   Chanan, Gary A ^a   Nelson, Jerry E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence characterization; Extremely large telescopes; Satellite remote sensing; Site selection

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; REMOTE SENSING; SITE SELECTION;

SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038421791     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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