Platform effects on optical variability and prediction of underwater visibility

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2784-2796

  Chang, Grace ^a   Twardowski, Michael S ^b   You, Yu ^c   Moline, Mark ^d   Zhai, Peng Wang ^e   Freeman, Scott ^b   Slivkoff, Matthew ^b   Nencioli, Francesco ^f   Kattawar, George W ^c  

^a Sea Engineering Inc   (United States)

^b WET Labs Inc   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VISIBILITY;

CALIFORNIA; HORIZONTAL VISIBILITY; INSTRUMENT PLATFORMS; OPTICAL DATA; PLATFORM EFFECTS; RADIANCE DISTRIBUTIONS; SANTA BARBARA CHANNELS;

UNDERWATER VISIBILITY;

EID: 77955996865     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.002784     Document Type: Article

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