Day/night whole sky imagers for 24-h cloud and sky assessment: History and overview

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1605-1616

  Shields, Janet E ^a   Karr, Monette E ^a   Johnson, Richard W ^a   Burden, Art R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABORATORIES; MARINE APPLICATIONS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

DATA PRODUCTS; DIGITAL IMAGERY; FULLY AUTOMATED; LINE OF SIGHT; PHYSICAL LABORATORY; RADIANCE DISTRIBUTIONS; TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATIONS;

MILITARY APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84874823862     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.001605     Document Type: Article

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