Lidar monitoring of regions of intense backscatter with poorly defined boundaries

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-109

  Kovalev, Vladimir A ^a   Petkov, Alexander ^a   Wold, Cyle ^a   Hao, Wei Min ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DATA HANDLING;

CLEAR AIR; DIRECTIONAL MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; PROCESSING PROCEDURES; RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES; THEORETICAL BASIS; URBAN ATMOSPHERES;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 78650954533     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.000103     Document Type: Article

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