Practical analytical backscatter error bars for elastic one-component lidar inversion algorithm
Applied Optics, Vol. 49, Issue 17, pp. 3380-3393 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.49.003380
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Abstract
We present an analytical formulation to compute the total-backscatter range-dependent error bars from the well-known Klett’s elastic-lidar inversion algorithm. A combined error-propagation and statistical formulation approach is used to assess inversion errors in response to the following error sources: observation noise (i.e., signal-to-noise ratio) in the reception channel, the user’s uncertainty in the backscatter calibration, and in the (range-dependent) total extinction-to-backscatter ratio provided. The method is validated using a Monte Carlo procedure, where the error bars are computed by inversion of a large population of noisy generated lidar signals, for total optical depths
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OCIS Codes
(010.0010) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Atmospheric and oceanic optics
(010.1290) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Atmospheric optics
(010.3640) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Lidar
ToC Category:
Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics
History
Original Manuscript: January 28, 2010
Revised Manuscript: April 26, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: April 27, 2010
Published: June 8, 2010
Citation
Francesc Rocadenbosch, M. Nadzri Md. Reba, Michaël Sicard, and Adolfo Comerón, "Practical analytical backscatter error bars for elastic one-component lidar inversion algorithm," Appl. Opt. 49, 3380-3393 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-49-17-3380
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