DELTA-K-LIDAR SENSING OF THE OCEAN SURFACE

被引:6
作者
PALMER, AJ
机构
[1] Wave Propagation Laboratory, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration U.S. Department of Commerce, Boulder, CO, 80303
来源
APPLIED OPTICS | 1992年 / 31卷 / 21期
关键词
DELTA-K LIDAR; OCEAN WAVE REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE CURRENT REMOTE SENSING;
D O I
10.1364/AO.31.004275
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
A new lidar technique for detecting ocean surface waves is analyzed theoretically. The method is based on the DELTA-k-radar technique and detects the modulation of the low-frequency product of two frequency-separated backscattered laser fields. It is shown that this DELTA-k-lidar technique can have a much larger signal-to-noise ratio than DELTA-k-radar, primarily because of its ability to aperture average the speckle noise in the backscattered fields.
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页码:4275 / 4279
页数:5
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