Two-wavelength lidar for atmosphere monitoring in urban area

Summary form only given. One of the main goals of the remote sensing of atmospheric aerosol is determination of the macrophysical parameters and microphysical characteristics of aerosol. Well known are the multi-wavelength lidar sounding possibilities of determining the size distribution of the scattering media particles. Two-wavelength sounding is the easiest realization of the multi-wavelength lidar sounding; employing appropriate techniques the spectral dependencies of the aerosol optical characteristics could be estimated. This paper presents estimations of the spectral transmittance of the atmosphere determined using a two-wavelength aerosol lidar.