Development of a portable SLODAR turbulence profiler

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 758-765

  Wilson, Richard ^a   Bate, John ^a   Guerra, Juan Carlos ^b   Hubin, Norbert ^c   Sarazin, Marc ^c   Saunter, Christopher ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^c Telescopic Nazionale Galileo ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Laser Guide Stars; Seeing; SLODAR; Turbulence Profile

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CONDITION MONITORING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OPTIMIZATION; SENSORS;

LASER GUIDE STARS; SEEING; SLODAR; TURBULENCE PROFILE;

PROFILOMETRY;

EID: 11144324897     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551258     Document Type: Conference Paper

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