Aerosol elastic scatter signatures in the near and mid-wave IR spectral regions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7323, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Richardson, Jonathan M ^a   Aldridge, John C ^a   Milstein, Adam B ^a   Lacirignola, Joseph J ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL SAMPLES; ANGULAR SCATTER; BIOLOGICAL AEROSOL; ELASTIC SCATTER; LINCOLN LABORATORY; MID-WAVE IR; MIDWAVE INFRARED; MODEL PREDICTION; MUELLER MATRIX; OBLIQUE ANGLES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PHOTORECEIVERS; POLARIZATION STATE; SPECTRAL RANGE; TUNABLE SOURCE; WAVEBANDS;

OPTICAL RADAR; SCATTERING;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

EID: 69949137308     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.819165     Document Type: Conference Paper

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