Fully automated analysis of space-based lidar data: an overview of the CALIPSO retrieval algorithms and data products

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  2004

• Venue

  SPIE Remote Sensing

• Publication date

  2004-11-04

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1117/12.572024
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