Coherent differential absorption lidar measurements of CO2

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 5092-5099

  Koch, Grady J ^a   Barnes, Bruce W ^a   Petros, Mulugeta ^b   Beyon, Jeffrey Y ^c   Amzajerdian, Farzin ^a   Yu, Jirong ^a   Davis, Richard E ^a   Ismail, Syed ^a   Vay, Stephanie ^a   Kavaya, Michael J ^a   Singh, Upendra N ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARBON DIOXIDE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSMITTERS;

PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE FLUX; WAVELENGTHS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 4944251851     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005092     Document Type: Article

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