Remote sensing of sea state using laser altimeters.

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• Publication year

  1982

• Venue

  Applied Optics

• Publication date

  1982-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Engineering, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1364/AO.21.003932PMID 20396342
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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