Rough ocean surface and sunglint region characteristics

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 27, 2006, Pages 7089-7096

  Monzon, Cesar ^a   Forester, Donald W ^b   Burkhart, Richard ^b   Bellemare, Jim ^b  

^a SFA INC   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFLECTION; PHASE SHIFT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SOLAR RADIATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS EQUATIONS; INTERACTION PROBABILITY DENSITY; PEAK REFLECTANCE SHIFT;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS;

EID: 33750560443     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.007089     Document Type: Article

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