First results from a dual photoelastic-modulator-based polarimetric camera

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2929-2946

  Diner, David J ^a   Davis, Ab ^a   Hancock, Bruce ^a   Geier, Sven ^a   Rheingans, Brian ^a   Jovanovic, Veljko ^a   Bull, Michael ^a   Rider, David M ^a   Chipman, Russell A ^b   Mahler, Anna Britt ^b   McClain, Stephen C ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CALIBRATION; FOCUSING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DEGREE OF LINEAR POLARIZATION; FOCAL PLANE ASSEMBLIES; MULTISPECTRAL SYSTEMS; NORMALIZED STOKES PARAMETERS; PHOTOELASTIC MODULATOR; POLARIMETRIC INFORMATIONS; PROCESSING ELECTRONICS; SPACEBORNE REMOTE SENSING;

CAMERAS;

EID: 77956007269     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.002929     Document Type: Article

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