Weitkamp Claus (ed.). Lidar: Range-Resolved Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere

Springer Science+Business Media Inc., 2005. — 466 p. — (Springer Series in Optical Sciences 102, ISSN: 0342-4111).This is a book on lidar, an active range-resolving optical remote measurement technique. Lidar allows us to measure, not just sense, virtually every property of the atmosphere. Lidar uses as a probe optical radiation, or light, even if this radiation is not always within the limits of the visible part of the spectrum. Lidar, or laser radar, as it is sometimes called, borrows its name from analogy with the better-known radar. There are indeed certain similarities, and yet the full name of which lidar is the acronym, light detection and ranging, is more misleading than enlightening.
I am sure that this book will help newcomers to the field to obtain the information necessary for learning about the potential of lidar methods and applying the techniques for making useful measurements. Researchers working in the lidar field will profit from the practice of experienced colleagues who contributed to the book.Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction to Lidar
Polarization in Lidar
Lidar and Multiple Scattering
Lidar and Atmospheric Aerosol Particles
High Spectral Resolution Lidar
High Spectral Resolution Lidar
Visibility and Cloud Lidar
Differential-Absorption Lidar for Ozone and Industrial Emissions
Differential-Absorption Lidar for Water Vapor and Temperature Profiling
Raman Lidar
Temperature Measurements with Lidar
Resonance Scattering Lidar
Doppler Wind Lidar
Airborne and Spaceborne Lidar
DIAL Revisited: BELINDA and White-Light Femtosecond Lidar