Monte Carlo code for high spatial resolution ocean color simulations

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 4936-4950

  D'Alimonte, Davide ^a   Zibordi, Giuseppe ^b   Kajiyama, Tamito ^a   Cunha, José C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); GRAVITY WAVES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIOMETRY; SEAWATER; SEAWATER EFFECTS; SURFACE WATERS; SURFACE WAVES;

HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES; MEASUREMENT PROTOCOL; RADIOMETRIC QUANTITIES; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; SURFACE GRAVITY WAVES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL DOMAIN;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 77957569816     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.004936     Document Type: Article

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