Development of an imaging lidar for aerosol monitoring using a wide field-of-view, high-resolution telescope

All-sky survey high resolution air-shower (Ashra) telescope has been developed to detect cosmic-ray particles. An imaging lidar system has been constructed by applying the Ashra telescope technique to atmospheric monitoring. The two-dimensional information on the aerosol distribution near the ground level can be obtained from the bistatic, imaging-lidar measurement.