General Theory of Light Propagation and Imaging Through the Atmosphere

• Main Author: McKechnie, T. Stewart (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 196
• Subjects: Physics.; Atmospheric sciences.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.

This book lays out a new, general theory of light propagation and imaging through Earth’s turbulent atmosphere. Current theory is based on the – now widely doubted – assumption of Kolmogorov turbulence. The new theory is based on a generalized atmosphere, the turbulence characteristics of which can...