A prototype of a homodyne laser radar system for surface displacement monitoring using the reference beam technique is presented. The prototype is very simple, is easy to align and focus, and is able to measure the velocity ...

The purpose of the work is to demonstrate real capabilities and to give examples of SiPMs application in lidar technology in both analog and photon counting modes. The experimental research within an operating lidar complex ...

In May–June 2019, smoke plumes from wildfires in Alberta, Canada, were advected all the way to Europe. To analyze the evolution of the plumes and to estimate the amount of smoke aerosols transported to Europe, retrievals ...

Elastic lidars provide range-resolved information about the aerosol content in the atmosphere. Nevertheless, a number of pre-processing techniques need to be used before performing the inversion of the detected signal: ...

The Lidar group in the Technical University of Catalonia is actively working in wind lidar techniques. An extensive review of such techniques is presented. A special emphasis is made on the direct Doppler technique and the ...

A lidar field campaign was performed between 30th June and 4th July 2007 in the Teide Observatory in the Canarian island of Tenerife to characterize the atmosphere of this astrophysical observation site in terms of nocturnal ...

The Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, located on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, is home of many astronomical facilities for its high sky quality. In the context of the Extremely Large Telescope Design ...

An improvement of the estimation of mineral dust longwave, direct radiative forcing is presented. It is based on recent developments that combine Sun photometer and multiwavelength lidar data to retrieve range-resolved ...