Jonathan S. Friedman, Chiao-Yao She

Atmospheric Lidar Fundamentals

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Produktbeschreibung

"Since the comprehensive textbook entitled Laser Remote Sensing: Fundamentals and Applications, written by R. M. Measures, was published byWiley-Interscience in 1984 [1.1], there have been tremendous advances both in laser technology - especially in the realm of spectral purity and high power - and in information/ digital technology. These advances in the past three-plus decades have transformed narrowband lidars from being demonstrations of remote sensing concepts to working instruments capable of probing the atmosphere on regular and quasi-continuous bases. Nevertheless, until 2005 there was no substantial textbook development about atmospheric lidars to keep up with these advances. At that time, two extensive collections of book chapters, written by experts and researchers specializing in different aspects and types of lidars, were published. They are Laser Remote Sensing, published by CRC Press with Takashi Fujii and Tetsuo Fukuchi [1.2] as editors, and Lidar: Range-Resolved Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, published by Springer with Claus Weitkamp [1.3] as the editor. These books brought up to date all important advances and practices in lidar research. The book chapters in these collections, though already more than a decade old at the time of this writing, contain sufficient information for beginners to learn and to initiate a chosen type of lidar for their remote sensing and research needs. When coupled with manufacturers' websites that now provide up-to-date information on the availability of lidar hardware, these resources represent sufficient information for state-of-the-art system development"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 772g
• ISBN-13: 9781316518236
• ISBN-10: 131651823X
• Artikelnr.: 62847032

Autorenporträt

Chiao-Yao She is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Colorado State University and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He has decades of experience in the area of atmospheric lidar physics, since obtaining his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1964, and pioneered two narrowband atmospheric lidars that enabled important scientific investigations. He has an outstanding research and publication record including more than two hundred papers on related topics and two book chapters.

Inhaltsangabe

Forward
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Classical light scattering theory
3. Semi-classical treatment of light absorption and scattering from atoms
4. Rayleigh and Raman scattering from linear molecules
5. Introduction to lidar remote sensing and the lidar equation
6. Common (broadband) lidar types and associated applications
References
Index.