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the known vertical distribution of schools; and algo- 

 rithms are developed to process the data. 



Acknowledgments 



We thank Edgeworth Wester and Wynn Eberhard 

 of Environmental Technology Laboratory, Boulder, 

 Colorado, for reading an early draft, and two anony- 

 mous reviewers for their constructive comments and 

 suggestions that improved the presentation of the 

 manuscript. Partial support for J. Churnside was 

 provided by the Advanced Sensor Applications Pro- 

 gram of the U.S. Department of Defense. 



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