Abstract :
It is suggested that an economical airborne lidar having a single laser can retrieve the three principal inherent optical properties of the ocean. Only three timeresolved backscattering receiver channels are required: (i) elastic (on-wavelength), (ii) inelastic (water Raman), and (iii) inelastic [chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) fluorescence channel to remove the CDOM fluorescence interference from the Raman channel].
Keywords :
statistical optics , Speckle , Measurement , Metrology , Surface measurements , Roughness , rough surfaces , scattering , Ultrafast optics , Ultrafast phenomena , instrumentation , COHERENCE
