Regularized algorithm for Raman lidar data processing

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 4879-4889

  Shcherbakov, Valery ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; OPTICAL RADAR;

INFORMATION UNCERTAINTIES; RAMAN LIDAR; VOLTERRA INTEGRAL EQUATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 35448996076     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.004879     Document Type: Article

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