Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
Volume 51, Issue 5, Pages 2498-2504Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2216884
Keywords
Carbon dioxide; integrated path differential absorption (IPDA); lidar; ranging
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Science Technology Office's Instrument Incubator Program
- NASA
- Goddard Space Flight Center Internal Research and Development program
- German Aerospace Center (DLR) under Forschungssemester Grant
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Determining the CO2 column abundance from an integrated path differential absorption (IPDA) lidar requires accurate knowledge of the range to the scattering surface, i.e., the column height. We have adapted and tested a ranging algorithm for the airborne IPDA CO2 lidar designed at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and have evaluated its accuracy and precision. We applied a quasi-maximum-likelihood method, using cross correlation, to estimate the range from the lidar's 1-mu s-wide echo pulses. The objective was to show that the use of these temporally long laser pulses allows the determination of the optical path length with required precision. We analyzed airborne measurements made in August 2009 over the Chesapeake Bay near the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The results indicate a ranging precision of better than 3 m, which is sufficient for airborne and space-based retrievals of CO2 column concentration.
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