High-efficiency aerosol scatterometer that uses an integrating sphere for the calibration of multiwavelength lidar data

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 3520-3526

  Fukagawa, Shunsuke ^a   Kuze, Hiroaki ^a   Lagrosas, Nofel ^a   Takeuchi, Nobuo ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AEROSOL PARTICLES; LIDAR SIGNALS; SCATTERING COEFFICIENT; SCATTEROMETERS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 20844450762     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.003520     Document Type: Article

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