Propagation and Imaging Through the Atmosphere Book

	Conference Committee
	Introduction
	Nature of surf-generated aerosol and its effect on electro-optical systems	2
	Aerosol production in the surf zone and effects on IR extinction	14
	Variations in submicron aerosol composition during the EOPACE program	28
	Comparison of marine aerosol model predictions with extinction and size distribution measurements	37
	Air mass characterization for optical propagation modeling in the coastal marine atmosphere	47
	Determination of an air mass using nephelometer measurements and the Naval aerosol model	59
	EOPACE air mass characterization experiment	66
	Removing attenuation effects in reflectivity images at 33 and 95 GHz	77
	Battlespace weather and EM/EO conditions for joint strike support	89
	EOPACE (electro-optical propagation assessment in coastal environments): overview and initial accomplishments	98
	Low-elevation transmission measurements at EOPACE 1. Molecular and aerosol effects	109
	Atmospheric effects on low-elevation transmission measurements at EOPACE	123
	Low-elevation transmission measurements at EOSPACE III. Scintillation effects	135
	Improving the EOTDA ocean background model	148
	Accounting for vertical variation of turbulence and aerosol extinction in the marine surface layer	157
	Point target extinction and scintillation as a function of range at LAPTEX, Crete	167
	Horizontal nonhomogeneous effects in the marine boundary layer	180
	Thermal infrared propagation across the surf-influenced marine atmospheric boundary layer	192
	Deconvolution from wavefront sensing with optimal wavefront estimation techniques	204
	Aerosol modulation transfer function: an overview	214
	Estimation of satellite orientation from space surveillance imagery measured with an adaptive optics telescope	226
	Results from turbulence profiling using SCIDAR at several observing sites	234
	Comparison of three methods of measuring the atmospheric coherence length	241
	Short-exposure imaging and short-term laser beam spread in a turbulent atmosphere	252
	Scintillation characterization under diverse conditions	263
	Green's function of the radiative transfer equation in snowfalls	270
	Damping of intensity fluctuations for laser beams propagating in snowfalls	278
	Schack-Hartmann wavefront sensing measurements of near-ground propagated laser beams	284
	Performance analysis of a Hartmann wavefront sensor used for sensing atmospheric turbulence statistics	298
	Filtered fractional Brownian motion as a model for atmospherically induced wavefront distortions	310
	Analysis of the photon statistics in partially corrected wavefronts	320
	Fourier-series-based atmospheric phase screen generator for simulating anisoplanatic geometries and temporal evolution	327
	Coherent optical processor for image-quality metric measurement	339
	Wavefront sensing of atmospheric phase distortions at the Palomar 200-in. telescope and implications for adaptive optics	344
	Horizontal line of sight turbulence over near-ground paths and implications for adaptive optics corrections in laser communications	354
	Automated seeing monitoring for queue-scheduled astronomical observations	366
	Scintillation data comparison between a star and laser returns from a high-altitude balloon payload	375
	Threshold effect in laser propagation with stimulated Brillouin scattering	385
	Set-theoretic deconvolution (STD) for multichromatic ground/air/space-based imagery	390
	Midinfrared atmospheric transmittance measurements by using the second and third harmonics of tunable TEA-CO[subscript 2] lasers	410
	Relative infrared transmission measurements of EOPACE	419
	Effect diffraction on a viewed object has on improvement of object optical image quality in a turbulent medium	426
	Image content for imaging after double passage through a turbulent medium	431
	Performance evaluation of optical systems in the territories of world spacedromes	440
	Nonlinear scattering processes in aerosol optics	447
	Addendum	456
	Author Index	457