Digital all-sky polarization imaging of partly cloudy skies

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 34, 2008, Pages

  Pust, Nathan J ^a   Shaw, Joseph A ^a  

^a Montana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; PARTICLE SIZE;

ANGLE OF POLARIZATION; CLOUD PARTICLE SIZE; CLOUDY SKIES; DEGREE OF LINEAR POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERED; PARTICLE RADII; SCATTERING PLANE; TWILIGHT ZONE;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 60949114257     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.00H190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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