Dense maritime fog attenuation prediction from measured visibility data

Radioengineering

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 223-227

  Nadeem, Farukh ^a   Leitgeb, Erich ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Fog; FSO; Model comparison; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956274111     PISSN: 12102512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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