Calibration method for multiangle lidar measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2948-2956

  Pahlow, Markus ^a,c   Kovalev, Vladimir A ^b   Parlange, Marc B ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CALIBRATION; DATA REDUCTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ELEVATION ANGLES; HOMOGENEITY; STANDARD DEVIATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 2542418003     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002948     Document Type: Article

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