Statistical analysis of temperature measurement errors in a brillouin scattering based distributed temperature sensor

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2838, Issue , 1996, Pages 276-286

  Dhliwayo, J ^a   Webb, D J ^a   Pannell, C N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brillouin scattering; Distributed sensors; Error analysis; Fibre optics; Temperature sensors

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; CURVE FITTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; FIBER OPTICS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; DISTRIBUTED SENSOR; DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSOR; FREQUENCY SEPARATION; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; LEAST SQUARES TECHNIQUES; LORENTZIAN LINE SHAPE; NUMERICAL APPROACHES;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 79957972972     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.259808     Document Type: Conference Paper

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