Raman water vapor lidar calibration

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7479, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Landulfo, E ^a   Da Costa, R F ^a   Torres, A S ^a   Lopes, F J S ^a   Whiteman, D N ^b   Venable, D D ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Lidar; Raman lidar; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION METHODOLOGIES; HOWARD UNIVERSITY; LIDAR; NEW RESULTS; RAMAN LIDAR; RECEIVING OPTICS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; STEP BY STEP PROCEDURE; TUNGSTEN LAMPS;

CALIBRATION; INCANDESCENT LAMPS; REMOTE SENSING; TUNGSTEN; WATER VAPOR;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 70350437239     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.829485     Document Type: Conference Paper

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