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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.978256
