LiDAR Profiling Satellite Observations for Air Quality Applications
Start Date:
June 4, 2025
End Date:
June 11, 2025
Description:
This training introduces data-users to the fundamentals of lidar remote sensing, highlighting strengths, limitations and differences when compared to passive remote sensors. Case studies will be used to demonstrate how to interpret lidar imagery from a variety of past and current spaceborne lidars, and we will provide instruction on how to acquire lidar data for analysis by the user.
Targeted Audience:
Air quality managers, air quality modelers and forecasters, commercial aviation, hazardous plume monitoring and forecasting (e.g., smoke, dust, volcanic ash), researchers, and academia.
Expected Outcomes:
By the end of this training, attendees will be able to:
1. Identify past and currently available lidar missions and their characteristics
2. Recognize the capabilities of LiDAR active remote sensing in measuring vertical profiles of aerosols and clouds for informing air quality applications
3. Interpret information within LiDAR curtains to discern cloud phase, aerosol type, and aerosol plume altitude for a given scene
4. Recognize the strengths and limitations of LiDAR observations
5. Find LiDAR images and data for a particular time period and location using NASA Earthdata and mission websites
