Statistical Estimation of the Light Pulse Deformation in the Optical Sounding of Plane-Stratified Clouds,

Abstract

The use in optical sounding systems of lasers with high power and short (up to 10 to the minus 9th power/sec) duration of the emitted pulse makes possible the identification of the lower and upper boundaries and spatial inhomogeneity of diffuse clouds with a resolution not attainable in searchlight sounding. The algorithm of the Monte-Carlo method used in the present article allows one to take into account the complex boundary conditions which arise in the propagation of a diverging, spatially restricted beam of light in a scattering medium with a stratified inhomogeneity; it also allows one to take into account the nonstationary condition of the process. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0784245

Entities

People

  • A. I. Popkov
  • G. M. Krekov
  • V. E. Zuey

Organizations

  • United States Army Foreign Science and Technology Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Boundaries
  • Data Science
  • Identification
  • Information Science
  • Light Pulses
  • Mathematics
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Scattering
  • Searchlights
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Statistical Estimation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Spectroscopy.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy