Atmospheric Propagation, Adaptive Systems, and Lidar Techniques for Remote Sensing II Book

	Conference Committees
	Dual-beam atmospheric turbulence measurement system performance as a high-altitude turbulence scale size sensor	4
	Correction for transmitter vibrations in laser scintillation measurements	13
	Atmospheric turbulence monitoring in conjunction with imager-designator operation	23
	Presentation of a new BRDF measurement device	34
	Evaluation of the different irradiance components on a rugged terrain	41
	Visible point target scintillation in the Mediterranean coastal area	50
	LAPTEX 1996: analysis of an airborne target over sea	60
	Ray trace analysis of the interaction between coherent illumination and cirrus clouds	73
	Refraction of a laser beam propagating along the surface horizontal path	83
	Atmospheric effects on long-range laser-enhanced imaging from a simulated airborne platform	92
	Optical propagation through low-level turbulence	104
	Estimation of laser system pointing performance via statistics of the received signal	111
	Numerical simulation of long-path spherical wave propagation in three-dimensional random media	123
	Effect of backscattering amplification on quality of object images in a turbulent medium	135
	Radio-created plasma beacons for atmospheric tomography	140
	Orthogonal expansions of the phase of random wave fields	146
	Adaptive optics on a shoe string	152
	Control loop analysis for a nematic liquid crystal spatial light modulator used in an adaptive optics system	161
	Propagation delay as a tool to retrieve high-frequency absolute tilt	168
	Physically constrained iterative deconvolution of adaptive optics images	175
	Combination of the sodium and Rayleigh laser guide stars in adaptive compensation of atmospheric turbulence	187
	Estimation of turbulent degradation and required spatial resolution of adaptive systems	191
	Project of the aerosol spaceborne lidar Tectonica-A	206
	Simulating speckle polarization backscatter signatures from actively illuminated satellites	211
	ORACLE (Ozone Research with Advanced Cooperative Lidar Experiment): joint NASA-CSA development of a space-based ozone dial	223
	Inversion of atmospheric optical parameters from elastic-backscatter lidar returns using a Kalman filter	227
	SPAce Readiness Coherent Lidar Experiment: validation of observing system simulations	240
	Design of a direct-detection Doppler wind lidar for spaceflight	250
	ALADIN impact study	259
	Difference between averaging and accumulating Doppler wind lidar data	270
	Mitigation of the speckle effect in incoherent lidar systems using telescope arrays	277
	Atmospheric observation by airborne lidar using a Si-APD single-photon counting module	286
	Inversion algorithms for space lidar observation of clouds and aerosols	296
	Multiple scattering in lidar remote sensing: nuisance and benefit	305
	Author Index	314