Why does the Secchi disk disappear? An imaging perspective

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2791-2802

  Hou, Weilin ^a   Lee, Zhongping ^a   Weidemann, Alan D ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; RADIATION;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; MODULATION TRANSFER; SECCHI DISK METHOD;

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 33947396056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.002791     Document Type: Article

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