A Conceptual Design Study For The Eos Lidar Atmospheric Sounder And Altimeter Facility

Lemuel E Mauldin III; Norman P Barnes; Edward V Browell; M.Patrick McCormick

doi:10.1117/12.948304

7 December 1988 A Conceptual Design Study For The Eos Lidar Atmospheric Sounder And Altimeter Facility

Lemuel E Mauldin III, Norman P Barnes, Edward V Browell, M.Patrick McCormick

Proceedings Volume 0972, Infrared Technology XIV; (1988) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.948304
Event: 32nd Annual International Technical Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Science and Engineering, 1988, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

As part of the Space Station program, NASA is collaborating with the European and Japanese space agencies to develop an unmanned, polar orbiting Earth observing system (Eos) to begin operation in the mid 1990 s Eos will provide, global. measurements with active and passive remote sensors having greater resolution and accuracy than those currently in use. One of the proposed Eos facility instruments, the Lidar Atmospheric Sounder and Altimeter (LASA), is an active remote sensor that offers the possibility of measurements such as the global vertical distributions of aerosols, cloud top heights, atmospheric trace gasses such as water vapor and ozone, and atmospheric temperature and pressure; and the height of the planetary boundary layer (PBL). LASA employs the principles of optical radar (lidar), differential absorption 1 i da r (DIAL), and laser altimetry to provide these measurements with unprecedented resolution. This paper describes the conceptual design of LASA and also describes the conceptual design of one of the experiments proposed for the LASA facility the Eos Atmospheric Global Lidar Experiment (EAGLE).

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Lemuel E Mauldin III, Norman P Barnes, Edward V Browell, and M.Patrick McCormick "A Conceptual Design Study For The Eos Lidar Atmospheric Sounder And Altimeter Facility", Proc. SPIE 0972, Infrared Technology XIV, (7 December 1988); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.948304

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