Polarized radiance distribution measurement of skylight. II. Experiment and data

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 33, 1997, Pages 8753-8764

  Liu, Yi ^a   Voss, Kenneth ^b  

^a Res and Data Systems Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Degree of polarization; Neutral point; Skylight; Stokes polarimeter

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION; RADIATION; SKYLIGHT;

EID: 0344831047     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008753     Document Type: Article

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