Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
Jan 1995
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Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA, 1995.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-12, Section: B, page:
Computer Science
Performance
Differential Absorption Lidar
Scientific paper
A computer program (LIDAR-PC) and associated atmospheric spectral databases have been developed which accurately simulate the laser remote sensing of the atmosphere and the system performance of a direct-detection Lidar or tunable Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) system. This simulation program allows, for the first time, the use of several different large atmospheric spectral databases to be coupled with Lidar parameter simulations on the same computer platform to provide a real-time, interactive, and easy to use design tool for atmospheric Lidar simulation and modeling. LIDAR -PC has been used for a range of different Lidar simulations and compared to experimental Lidar data. In general, the simulations agreed very well with the experimental measurements. In addition, the simulation offered, for the first time, the analysis and comparison of experimental Lidar data to easily determine the range-resolved attenuation coefficient of the atmosphere and the effect of telescope overlap factor. The software and databases operate on an IBM-PC or compatible computer platform, and thus are very useful to the research community for Lidar analysis. The complete Lidar and atmospheric spectral transmission modeling program uses the HITRAN database for high-resolution molecular absorption lines of the atmosphere, the BACKSCAT/LOWTRAN computer databases and models for the effects of aerosol and cloud backscatter and attenuation, and the range-resolved Lidar equation. The program can calculate the Lidar backscattered signal-to-noise for a slant path geometry from space and simulate the effect of high resolution, tunable, single frequency, and moderate line width lasers on the Lidar/DIAL signal. The program was used to model and analyze the experimental Lidar data obtained from several measurements. A fixed wavelength, Ho:YSGG aerosol Lidar (Sugimoto, 1990) developed at USF and a tunable Ho:YSGG DIAL system (Cha, 1991) for measuring atmospheric water vapor at 2.1 μm were analyzed. The simulations agreed very well with the measurements, and also yielded, for the first time, the ability to easily deduce the atmospheric attentuation coefficient, alpha, from the Lidar data. Simulations and analysis of other Lidar measurements included that of a 1.57 mu m OPO aerosol Lidar system developed at USF (Harrell, 1995) and of the NASA LITE (Laser-in-Space Technology Experiment) Lidar recently flown in the Space shuttle. Finally, an extensive series of laboratory experiments were made with the 1.57 μm OPO Lidar system to test calculations of the telescope/laser overlap and the effect of different telescope sizes and designs. The simulations agreed well with the experimental data for the telescope diameter and central obscuration test cases. The LIDAR-PC programs are available on the Internet from the USAF Lidar Home Page Web site, http://www.cas.usf.edu/physics/lidar.html/.
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