| Freudenthaler, Volker (2003): Optimized background suppression in near field lidar telescopes. 6th ISTP International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling: Needs and Technologies, 14. - 20. September 2003, Leipzig, Germany. |
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Abstract
It is shown that a tilted slit in the focal plane of the lidar telescope limits the telescopes field of view efficiently and suppresses the background in the lidar signal by up to an order of magnitude better than a circular diaphragm.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Poster) |
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| Keywords: | lidar, background suppression, tilted slit diaphragm |
| Collections: | Physics |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 550 Earth sciences and geology |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-12957-5 |
| Language: | English |
| ID Code: | 12957 |
| Deposited On: | 09. May 2012 06:01 |
| Last Modified: | 08. Jan 2013 17:03 |
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