Analytical function for lidar geometrical compression form-factor calculations

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1323-1331

  Stelmaszczyk, Kamil ^a   Dell'Aglio, Marcella ^b   Chudzyński, Stanislaw ^c   Stacewicz, Tadeusz ^c   Wöste, Ludger ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OZONE; RAY TRACING; REMOTE SENSING; TELESCOPES;

BIAXIAL LIDARS; GEOMETRICAL COMPRESSION FORM-FACTOR; LASER PULSE ENERGY; NEWTONIAN TELESCOPE;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 14844291353     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001323     Document Type: Article

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