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The suggested
list of topics to be covered in this conference
is:
- Networking lidars
- Conbinating lidars and fusing lidars with
other sensors
- Advances in lidar techniques and new methodologies
- Atmospheric boundary layer and pollution
monitoring
- Tropospheric and lower stratospheric dynamics
and transport
- Cloud-aerosol interaction and radiation
budget
- Upper and middle atmosphere physics and
chemistry
- Space-based missions, validation and global
monitoring
- Atmospheric wind and turbulence
- Greenhouse gas monitoring
- Forest, Ocean and Land surface applications |
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Papers are solicited
on the following suggested and related topics:
Lidar technologies
and methods
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Laser sources (new laser, eye safe, fiber,
spaceborne, narrowband, etc.)
* Lidar components (telescope, mirrors,
detectors, imagers, trackers, etc.)
* Methodologies (DIAL, Raman, coherent,
polarization, high spectral resolution,
multiple scattering, fluorescence, etc.)
* Multi-lidar system (combining of Mie,
Rayleigh, and Raman ctc.)
* Remote controlled lidar
* Retrieval (inversion techniques, primary
and secondary products, etc.)
* New lidar applications and methods
* New technologies
* Sensor synergy
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Fundamental measurements
* Aerosols, fog and clouds
(tropospheric and stratospheric, mapping,
particle concentration and size, depolarization,
liquid or solid phase, ...)
* Atmospheric water vapor
* Temperature, wind , and turbulence
* Green-house gases (ozone, CO2, methane,
etc.)
* Atmospheric minor species (metallic, OH,
hydrogen, etc.)
* Pollution (NO2, SO2, pollen etc.)
* Altitude and range
* Biological components
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Process studies
and applications using lidar data
* Boundary layer dynamics
and flux measurements
* Atmospheric dynamics, radiative transfer,
radiation budget, ...
* Climate change and radiative forcing
* Global cloud and aerosol observations
* Atmospheric chemistry and transport
* Stratospheric ozone loss
* Meteorological processes
* Weather forecast and data assimilation
* Terrain mapping, vegetation, crustal dynamics
* Hydrosphere & Cryosphere applications
(water salinity, ice pack, water pollution,
etc.)
* Stratospheric and Mesospheric applications
(Middle atmosphere)
* Commercial applications
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Networking
* Transport of aerosols,
dusts, pollution
* Long-term observations
* Global monitoring (ground based, aircraft
and satellite observations)
* Future needs
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Space and aircraft
programs
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Current programs
* Planned programs
* Future scientific and technical challenges
* Coordination with ground-based lidar stations
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