Vol. 5, issue 11, article # 9

Abstract:

Investigation presented in this paper concerns the lidar return power recorded in a bistatic optical arrangement from a rough surface with a combined scattering phase function of locally plane elements. An equation for that return power is derived for the case of sounding through an optically dense aerosol atmosphere of a surface with the scattering phase function including diffuse and quasispecular components. It is shown that the return power essentially depends on the diffuse–to–specular components ratio and on the roughness characteristics of the surface as well.