Standoff sensing of bioaerosols using intensified range-gated spectral analysis of laser-induced fluorescence

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 865-874

  Simard, Jean Robert ^a   Roy, Gilles ^a   Mathieu, Pierre ^a   Larochelle, Vincent ^a   McFee, John ^b   Ho, Jim ^b  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioaerosol; Fluorescence; Intensified charge coupled device (ICCD); Laser induced fluorescence (LIF); Light detection and ranging (LIDAR); Raman; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DATA REDUCTION; FLUORESCENCE; LASERS; NITROGEN; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BIOAEROSOLS; INTENSIFIED CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (ICCD); LASER-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE (LIF); LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING (LIDAR);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 2442601721     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.823285     Document Type: Article

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