A Novel Lidar Ceilometer Design, Implementation and Characterisation

In this thesis, a new lidar (light detection and ranging) ceilometer capable of monitoring cloud base and sensitive to boundary layer aerosols is introduced. The key to this novelty lies in its divided-lens design that addresses a classical lidar problem of balancing transmitter-receiver overlap and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vande Hey, Joshua D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
Series:Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and Literature Review
  • Theory of Lidar
  • Opto-mechanical Design of a Biaxial Elastic Lidar Prototype
  • Determination of Lidar Overlap
  • Determination of Cloud Base Height and Vertical Visibility from a Lidar Signal
  • Conclusions and Further Work