Lidar instruments for ESA Earth observation missions

• Main Authors: Hélière, Arnaud, Armandillo, Errico, Durand, Yannig, Culoma, Alain, Meynart, Roland
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: SPIE 21.11.2017

The idea of deploying a lidar system on an Earthorbiting satellite stems from the need for continuously providing profiles of our atmospheric structure with high accuracy and resolution and global coverage. Interest in this information for climatology, meteorology and the atmospheric sciences in gen...