Aerosol and cloud measurements at 532 and 1064 nm by the GLAS polar orbiting lidar instrument

Author

Spinhirne, J.D. ; Palm, S.P. ; Hlavka, D.L. ; Hart, W.D. ; Mahesh, A. ; Welton, E.J.

Author_Institution

Lab. for Atmospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

Volume

6

fYear

2004

fDate

20-24 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

3956

Abstract

The first polar orbiting satellite lidar instrument, the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS), was launched in 2003 and is approaching six months of data operations. As part of the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) project, the GLAS instrument is intended as a laser sensor fulfilling complementary requirements for several Earth science disciplines including atmospheric and surface applications on the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite. In this paper we present examples of atmospheric measurement results and explain data products now accessible for the science community

Keywords

aerosols; atmospheric techniques; clouds; optical radar; radar altimetry; remote sensing by laser beam; 1064 nm; 532 nm; AD 2003; GLAS; Geoscience Laser Altimeter System; Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite; NASA Earth Observing System project; aerosol measurements; atmospheric techniques; cloud measurements; laser sensor fulfilling complementary requirements; polar orbiting satellite lidar instrument; Aerosols; Clouds; Earth Observing System; Extraterrestrial measurements; Geoscience; Instruments; Laser radar; Laser theory; NASA; Satellites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8742-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1369993

Filename

1369993