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Lidar Measurements: Atmospheric Constituents, Clouds, and Ground Reflectance

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Radiation and Water in the Climate System

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Vision is a capability developed to a high degree of perfection in many zoological species including man. In addition to shape, color, texture and movement, distance can also be inferred. Distance measurement schemes, however, tend to get increasingly inaccurate as soon as objects are farther away than 102 to 104 m, depending on circumstances. As with very few exceptions, vision is a passive process that relies on external sources of illumination, the straightforward and accurate time-of-flight determination of distance is not available to us naturally.

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Weitkamp, C. (1996). Lidar Measurements: Atmospheric Constituents, Clouds, and Ground Reflectance. In: Raschke, E. (eds) Radiation and Water in the Climate System. Nato ASI Series, vol 45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03289-3_10

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