Improving visibility depth in passive underwater imaging by use of polarization

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2794-2803

  Chang, Peter C Y ^a   Flitton, Jonathan C ^a   Hopcraft, Keith I ^a   Jakeman, Eric ^a   Jordan, David L ^b   Walker, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYSTYRENES; UNDERWATER IMAGING;

VISIBILITY DEPTH;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 0041882170     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.002794     Document Type: Article

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