High pulse repetition rate, eye safe, visible wavelength lidar systems: Design, results and potential

Author

Spinhirne, James ; Berkoff, Timothy ; Welton, Elsworth ; Campbell, James

Author_Institution

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1382

Abstract

In In 1993 the first of the eye safe visible wavelength lidar systems known now as Micro Pulse Lidar (MPL) became operational. Since that time there have been several dozen of these systems produced and applied for full time profiling of atmospheric cloud and aerosol structure. There is currently an observational network of MPL sites to support global climate research. In the course of application of these instruments there have been significant improvements in understanding, design and performance of the systems. There are addition potential and applications beyond current practice for the high repetition rate, eye safe designs. The MPL network and the current capability, design and future potential of MPL systems are described.

Keywords

aerosols; atmospheric composition; atmospheric measuring apparatus; clouds; optical radar; remote sensing by laser beam; aerosol; atmosphere; cloud; design; eye safe; high pulse repetition rate; laser remote sensing; lidar; measurement technique; micro pulse lidar; visible wavelength; Aerosols; Apertures; Bandwidth; Clouds; Instruments; Laser radar; NASA; Optical noise; Optical pulses; Optical receivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7536-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026123

Filename

1026123