DocumentCode
2140329
Title
Automatic weather station (AWS) lidar
Author
Rall, Jonathan A R ; Campbell, James ; Abshire, James B. ; Spinhirne, James D.
Author_Institution
Laser Remote Sensing Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Volume
7
fYear
2001
fDate
2001
Firstpage
3065
Abstract
A ground based, autonomous, low power atmospheric lidar instrument is being developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. We report on the design and anticipated performance of the proposed instrument and show data from two prototype lidar instruments previously deployed to Antarctica
Keywords
atmospheric measuring apparatus; optical radar; remote sensing by laser beam; AWS lidar; Antarctica; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; automatic weather station lidar; design; ground based autonomous low power atmospheric lidar; performance; prototype instruments; Clouds; Instruments; Laser radar; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical refraction; Optical scattering; Telescopes; Temperature sensors;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7031-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.978256
Filename
978256
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