Research toward Multi-site Characterization of Sky Obscuration by Clouds

Abstract

This report describes the work done for the Naval Post Graduate School and in association with Starfire Optical Range, Kirtland Air Force Base, under NPS Grant N00244-07-1-0009. This work relates to the Air Force?s need to characterize the cloud distribution during day and night, for a variety of applications. These applications include support of research into the impact of clouds on laser communication and support of satellite tracking.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA547055

Entities

People

  • Art R. Burden
  • Jacob R. Streeter
  • Janet E. Shields
  • Monette E. Karr
  • Richard W. Johnson
  • Vincent W. Mikuls
  • William Hodgkiss

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Climate Change
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Processing
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • High Resolution
  • Laser Communications
  • Light Sources
  • Measurement
  • Obscuration
  • Optics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects