Atmospheric Optics Sensing, Mitigation and Exploitation
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2022) | Viewed by 21306
Special Issue Editors
Interests: atmospheric and adaptive optics; beam control; wavefront sensing
Interests: atmospheric optics; meteorological optics; optical turbulence
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Dear Colleagues,
We would like you to consider submitting papers containing your most recent research results and overviews of the latest developments to this Special Issue on Atmospheric Optics Sensing, Mitigation and Exploitation.
It is well known that the propagation of optical waves in the atmosphere can be severely affected by various meteorological processes that induce major optical effects such as scattering, refraction, and turbulence. This triad of atmospheric effects plays a critical role in the design and performance assessment electro-optical (E-O) systems including laser communications, directed energy, lidar, target tracking and designation, active imaging, long-range video surveillance, remote sensing, and power beaming.
Until recently the mutual coupling of these effects and their multi-scale nature, complexity, and variability have been generally overlooked. This simplification of the real-world complexity of atmospheric effects and their impact on laser beam and image propagation represents one of the major barriers for both the accurate assessment of atmospheric optics systems performance in complicated environments and the development of advanced atmospheric characterization, sensing, and mitigation techniques. This Special Issue provides an opportunity for broad discussions on atmospheric dynamics complexity, state-of-the-art modeling, simulations and sensing techniques, and new approaches for the predictive analysis, mitigation, and exploitation of atmospheric effects for various E-O applications.
Topics of special interest include but are not limited to:
- Multi-scale modeling of atmospheric effects for optical waves propagation.
- Coupled effects of scattering, refraction, and turbulence on laser beam and image characteristics.
- Atmospheric effects predictive analysis via in-situ measurements and characterization.
- Advanced atmospheric sensing techniques including optical sensors, lidars for atmospheric profiling, local nodal meteorological sensors, and radio and acoustic sounding sensors.
- Air–sea–land interactions and their impact on optical wave propagation.
- Long-range, deep turbulence and target-in-the-loop propagation.
- Mitigation and exploitation of atmospheric effects.
- Atmospheric effects understanding and prediction with deep machine learning.
Prof. Dr. Mikhail Vorontsov
Dr. Steve Hammel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Optical turbulence
- Atmospheric refraction
- Extinction
- Lidar
- Meteorology
- Atmospheric sensors
- Beam control
- Wavefront sensors
- Adaptive optics
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