Antarctic Miniature Lidar

Author

Rall, Jonathan A R ; Abshire, James B.

Author_Institution

Laser Remote Sensing Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

27-31 May 1996

Firstpage

1538

Abstract

A second Antarctic Miniature Lidar instrument (Ant Lidar II) has been assembled, tested, and deployed to the NOAA Clean Air Facility (CAF) at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. This instrument deployed in February of this year replaces the first Antarctic Lidar (Ant Lidar I) which operated at the South Pole Station from February to July 1995. The new lidar, as in the first instrument, uses redundant commercially available, single element diode lasers, a 20 cm Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, and a silicon avalanche photodiode (APD) operated in the photon counting mode. The authors present measurements from the Ant Lidar I instrument as well as the design of the Ant Lidar II instrument and measurements made both prior to and following its installation at the NOAA CAF in February, 1996

Keywords

atmospheric measuring apparatus; meteorological instruments; optical radar; remote sensing by laser beam; semiconductor lasers; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; Ant Lidar I; Ant Lidar II; Antarctic Miniature Lidar; Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope; South Pole Station; apparatus; atmosphere; avalanche photodiode; equipment; instrument; laser remote sensing; lidar; measurement technique; meteorology; photon counting mode; single element diode laser; Antarctica; Assembly; Avalanche photodiodes; Diode lasers; Instruments; Laser radar; Silicon; South Pole; Telescopes; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1996. IGARSS '96. 'Remote Sensing for a Sustainable Future.', International

Conference_Location

Lincoln, NE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3068-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1996.516723

Filename

516723