Underwater 3-D optical imaging with a gated viewing laser radar

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2005, Pages

  Busck, Jens ^a,b  

^a Forsvaret   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

3 D images; Gated viewing; Underwater imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SEAWATER;

GATED VIEWING; OPTICAL IMAGING; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

UNDERWATER IMAGING;

EID: 33747625452     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2127895     Document Type: Article

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