EARSeL eProceedings Vol. 3, No. 2, 248-260, 2004
Eleonora Zege, Iosif Katsev, Alexander Prikhach and Alexey Malinka
Abstract
Citation EARSeL European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories, Paris, France BIS-Verlag
This paper
outlines the software AOLS (Airborne Oceanic Lidar Simulator) for quasi
real-time computer simulation of airborne oceanic lidar performance and the
underlying semi-analytical theory of a lidar return with multiple scattering. The
model provides the signal in elastic lidar with polarization devices and with
Raman and fluorescence channels. The model data compare exceptionally well with
experimental data provided as a result of the HyCODE 2001 field test. The
presented modelling is a powerful tool not only to predict and to optimise the
performance of oceanic airborne lidar but also to develop and verify retrieval
techniques. An analytical inversion of the lidar equation with multiple
scattering and the first advances in the inversion of lidar profiles with
multiple scattering are presented.
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History
Submitted: 03 November 2003
Revised: 20 April 2004
Accepted: 23 April 2004
Zege E, I Katsev, A Prikhach & A Malinka, 2004. Elastic and Raman lidar sounding of coastal waters. Theory, computer simulation, inversion possibilities. EARSeL eProceedings 3(2), 248-260
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