Determination of slope in lidar data using a duplicate of the inverted function

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 34, 2006, Pages 8781-8789

  Kovalev, Vladimir A ^a  

^a RMRS FIRE Sciences Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTICAL RADAR; RAMAN SCATTERING;

ELASTIC LIDARS; EXTINCTION-COEFFICIENT PROFILES; INVERTED FUNCTION;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 33846536833     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.008781     Document Type: Article

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