LIDAR

Light Detection And Ranging describes a procedure for the remote sensing of the atmosphere.
By means of laser radiation light pulses are produced, which are strongly returned of the atmospehre under squint you.
From this conclusions on the strewing object can be made..

Ranges of application are ground-based or airborne Lidarsystems for active remote sensing in the fields of

• wind velocity,
• water vapour,
• aerosol,
• clouds and trace gases (e.g. ozon and methane)

The fields of research are:

• environmental and climatical changes
• validating of atmosphere models
• space-based applications
• studies about wake vortex