MUELLER MATRIX MEASUREMENTS OF OCEAN WATER Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Measurements of the complete polarized light scattering properties of ocean water have been made for scattering angles from 10 to 160. The observed normalized Mueller matrices had six non-zero elements whose angular dependences were reminiscent of Rayleigh scat-terers. The remaining 10 elements were zero at all scattering angles. The normalized measurements showed little variability with the location or depth of the sample even though total cross-sections varied by more than an order of magnitude. An average Mueller matrix is presented which represents ocean water scattering effects with a standard deviation of typically less than 10% over the various ocean locations and depths that we observed. 1984 SPIE.

published proceedings

  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS

author list (cited authors)

  • FRY, E. S., & VOSS, K. J.

citation count

  • 2

complete list of authors

  • FRY, ES||VOSS, KJ

editor list (cited editors)

  • Blizard, M. A.

publication date

  • January 1984