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1Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33214, USA.
Optics Express
|March 19, 2009
Abstract:
A method, based on the reciprocity principle of radiative transfer, for using routinely collected field measurements of apparent optical properties in a water body to estimate the total return (time integrated) to an airborne or space borne lidar is presented. It will allow prediction of lidar returns using the databases of apparent optical propertie assembled in support of ocean color remote sensing.
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