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Class Taught by Professor Xinzhao Chu in Spring 2016

ASEN-6365. Lidar Remote Sensing

The development of this lidar class was supported, in part, by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. For more information about the award, see "Understanding the Global MLT Thermal Structure and Dynamics from Lidar and Satellite Observations and GCM Simulations."

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Syllabus: PDF
Outline: PDF
Lecture Notes: Lecture01_Introduction.pdf Lecture02_IntroRemoteSensing.pdf Lecture03_LidarFundamental.pdf Lecture04_LidarEquation.pdf
Lecture Notes: Lecture05_PhysProcess1.pdf Lecture06_PhysProcess2.pdf Lecture07_PhysProcess3.pdf Lecture08_Architecture.pdf
Lecture Notes: Lecture09_LidarEqSolutions.pdf Lecture10_EffectiveCrossection.pdf Lecture11_EnvelopeEstimateClassification.pdf
Lecture Notes: Lecture12_TempLidarPhysicalPrinciples.pdf Lecture13_TempLidarIntegrationTech.pdf Lecture14_TempLidarBoltzmannTech.pdf
Lecture Notes: Lecture15_TempLidarDopplerTech.pdf Lecture16_TempLidarResDopplerTech.pdf Lecture17_TempLidarNaDopplerInstrumentation.pdf
Lecture Notes: Lecture18_TempLidarFeKDoppler.pdf Lecture19_TempLidarRayleighDopplerHSRLDIAL.pdf Lecture20_WindLidarOverviewWindTech.pdf
Lecture Notes: Lecture21_VectorWindDirectMotionDetection.pdf Lecture22_LidarErrorSensitivityAnalysis1.pdf Lecture23_LidarErrorSensitivityAnalysis2.pdf
Lecture Notes: Lecture24_CoherentDopplerLidar1.pdf Lecture25_CoherentDopplerLidar2.pdf Lecture26_CoherentDopplerLidar3.pdf
Lecture Notes: Lecture27_DirectDetectionDopplerEdgeFilters.pdf Lecture28_DirectDetectionDopplerEdgeFilters2.pdf Lecture29_LidarSimulation.pdf
Lecture Notes: Lecture30_LidarDataInversion1.pdf Lecture31_LidarDataInversion2.pdf Lecture32_AerosolLidarPMC.pdf
Lecture Notes: Lecture33_AerosolLidarElasticRamanHSRL.pdf Lecture34_AerosolLidarHSRL.pdf Lecture35_SpectralFilters.pdf
Lecture Notes: Lecture36_LidarDesignArchitecture Lecture37_LaserRangeFinding.pdf Lecture38_LaserAltimeter.pdf
Lecture Notes: Lecture39_LidarBathymetryPhotonCounting.pdf Lecture40_SpaceborneLidar.pdf Lecture41_DIAL1.pdf Lecture42_DIAL2.pdf
Lecture Notes: Lecture43_ConstituentLidar3.pdf Lecture44_ConstituentLidar4.pdf Lecture45_LIFWhiteLightCombLidar.pdf Lecture46_SpaceborneLidar_Weimer.pdf
Reading Materials: IntroRemoteSensing.pdf IntroLidar.pdf Searchlight.pdf MidAtmosLidarComparison.pdf
Reading Materials: RayleighTempLidar.pdf RamanLidar.pdf FallingSphere.pdf RotationRaman.pdf
Reading Materials: WindLidarChapter.pdf DDLdoubleEdge.pdf DDLI2Filter.pdf DDLfringeImaging.pdf
Reading Materials: AerosolLidarChap.pdf HSRL.pdf HSRLI2Filter.pdf
Reading Materials: RamanLidarChapter.pdf
HW Assignments: HW1 HW2 HW3 HW4 HW5 HW6 HW7
HW Lidar Data: NaLidar_AR1102 SampleCode_SaturationCorrection MSIS00_Data
Final Projects: Final_Project
Remote Sensing Seminar: RSseminar2008Lidar
Lecture ECCS 1B28 @ 2:00-2:50 pm on M, W, F
Instructor Professor Xinzhao Chu
Office: CIRES 241 or CIRES 1B49
Office Hours: TBD
Phone: 303-492-3280 or 303-735-0838
E-mail: Xinzhao.Chu@Colorado.edu

Course Objectives
LIDAR stands for "Light Detection and Ranging", commonly known as Laser Radar. It is not only replacing conventional sensors, but also creating new methods with unique properties that could not be achieved before. Lidar is extremely useful in atmospheric and environmental research as well as space exploration. It also has wide applications in industry, defense, and military.

Our objectives are to provide:
  1. Comprehensive, yet easily understandable, up-to-date understandings of lidar principles, technologies, and applications;
  2. Approaches for quantitative lidar simulation, lidar sensitivity and error analysis, lidar data retrieval, lidar system design and performance analysis;
  3. Opportunities to see and possibly operate the real state-of-the-art lidar systems and make connections to lidar experts in the nation and world.