Understanding and Ameliorating non-linear phase and amplitude responses in AMCW lidar

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-42

  Godbaz, John P ^a   Cree, Michael J ^a   Dorrington, Adrian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

AMCW; Crosstalk; Harmonic cancelation; Heterodyning; Irregular phase steps; Lidar; Multipath; Non circularly symmetric noise; Phase linearity

Indexed keywords

AMCW; HARMONIC CANCELATION; IRREGULAR PHASE STEPS; MULTI-PATH; NON-CIRCULARLY-SYMMETRIC NOISE; PHASE LINEARITY;

CROSSTALK; HETERODYNING;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84857983165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4010021     Document Type: Article

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