Optimized background suppression in near field lidar telescopes

Freudenthaler, Volker (2003): Optimized background suppression in near field lidar telescopes. 6th ISTP International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling: Needs and Technologies, Leipzig, Germany, 14. - 20. September 2003.

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.

• Dokumententyp: Konferenzbeitrag (Poster)
• Keywords: lidar, background suppression, tilted slit diaphragm
• Fakultät: Physik
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie
• Sprache: Englisch

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