Status and performance of the CALIOP lidar

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5575, Issue , 2004, Pages 8-15

  Winker, David M ^a   Hunt, William ^b   Hostetler, Chris ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Wyle Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; INFRARED DEVICES; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSMITTERS;

CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR WITH ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATION (CALIOP); LASER TRANSMITTERS; MOLECULAR DEPOLARIZATION; PAYLOAD CONTROLLERS (PLC);

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 17644386208     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.571955     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

1. Winker, D. M., J. Pelon, and M. P. McCormick, "The CALIPSO mission: Spaceborne lidar for observation of aerosols and clouds," Proc. SPIE, 4893, 1-11, 2003.
2. Reagan, J. A., X. Wang, and M. T. Osborn, "Spaceborne lidar calibration from cirrus and molecular backscatter returns," Trans. Geosci., & Rem. Sens., 40, 2285-2290, 2002.