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Aerosol backscatter lidar calibration and data interpretation
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Menzies, R. T. Kavaya, M. J. |
| Copyright Year | 1984 |
| Description | A treatment of the various factors involved in lidar data acquisition and analysis is presented. This treatment highlights sources of fundamental, systematic, modeling, and calibration errors that may affect the accurate interpretation and calibration of lidar aerosol backscatter data. The discussion primarily pertains to ground based, pulsed CO2 lidars that probe the troposphere and are calibrated using large, hard calibration targets. However, a large part of the analysis is relevant to other types of lidar systems such as lidars operating at other wavelengths; continuous wave (CW) lidars; lidars operating in other regions of the atmosphere; lidars measuring nonaerosol elastic or inelastic backscatter; airborne or Earth-orbiting lidar platforms; and lidars employing combinations of the above characteristics. |
| File Size | 4777016 |
| Page Count | 72 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19840019998 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t7pp3xv0b |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1984-03-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Lasers And Masers Climatology Error Analysis Data Acquisition Atmospheric Models Backscattering Troposphere Remote Sensing Meteorological Parameters Aerosols Signal Processing Continuous Wave Lasers Laser Applications Optical Radar Carbon Dioxide Lasers Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
