Quality-assurance/quality-control issues in open-path FTIR monitoring

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3107, Issue , 1997, Pages 86-92

  Russwurm, George M ^a   Childers, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a ALION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fourier transform infrared spectrometry; Open path Fourier transform infrared monitoring; Open path monitoring; Quality assurance quality control (QA QC)

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MONITORING; QUALITY CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; STANDARDIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; VEGETATION;

CONTROL ISSUES; CONTROL PROCEDURES; DATA QUALITY (DQ); FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROMETRY; OPEN-PATH FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED MONITORING; OPEN-PATH MONITORING; QUALITY ASSURANCE/QUALITY CONTROL (QA/QC);

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 4444254442     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.274744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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