Quality quantifier of indirect measurements

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5151-5167

  Ceccherini, Simone ^a   Carli, Bruno ^a   Raspollini, Piera ^a  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DATA FUSION; JACOBIAN MATRICES;

ATMOSPHERIC OZONE; CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTION; ILL POSED PROBLEM; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; INDIRECT MEASUREMENTS; INFORMATION DISTRIBUTIONS; KERNEL MATRICES; MEASUREMENT QUALITY; QUALITY ASSESSMENT;

MEASUREMENTS;

OZONE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OZONE;

EID: 84857532368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.005151     Document Type: Article

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