Airborne and scanning lidar results obtained during Pacific 2001 in the Lower Fraser Valley of British Columbia

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5235, Issue , 2004, Pages 525-536

  Strawbridge, Kevin B ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airborne Lidar; Planetary boundary layer; Scanning Lidar; Valley flow

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AIRCRAFT; BOUNDARY LAYERS; SCANNING; SMOKE; THERMAL PLUMES; TROPOSPHERE;

AIRBORNE LIDAR; SCANNING LIDAR; VALLEY FLOW;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 1942516378     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.512990     Document Type: Conference Paper

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