Experimental study of spatial structure of turbulence at Maui Space Surveillance Site (MSSS)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6304, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Belen'kii, Mikhail S ^a   Cuellar, Edward ^a   Hughes, Kevin A ^a   Rye, Vincent A ^a  

^a TREX ENTERPRISES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Image centroid; Point spread function; Power spectral density; Spatial structure; Tilt statistics; Turbulence; Turbulence outer scale

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CENTROID; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITIES; SPATIAL STRUCTURES; TILT STATISTICS; TURBULENCE OUTER SCALES;

ANISOTROPY; CAMERAS; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

EID: 33750682992     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.679093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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