RESEARCH ASSOCIATES: Dimitri Antonov

MAILING ADDRESS: 2740, Einstein St., Ste-Foy, Quebec, Canada, G1P 4S4

TELEPHONE NUMBER: (418) 657-7406 ext. 364

FAX NUMBER: (418) 657-7009

E-MAIL ADDRESS: belanger@ino.ca

WEB SITE: http://www.ino.ca

DATE: 2001/09/04

LIDAR LOCATION (CITY, COUNTRY, LAT., LONG.): Ste-Foy, Canada, 47o, 71o

SITE ELEVATION: 29.6m

PARAMETER(S) OR CONSTITUENT(S) MEASURED: Particle in air

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND SPONSOR: N/A

MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE: Mie scattering

MEASUREMENT RANGE: 1km (longer with hard targets)

VERTICAL RESOLUTION: 1.5m

FREQ. OF MEASUREMENT (TYPICALLY): 3min

MEASUREMENT TIMES (TYPICALLY): 24hrs per day, 365 days per year

LASER TYPE AND WAVELENGTH (s): Fiber laser, 1.5micron

LASER ENERGY/PULSE: 1.5microJoule/pulse

PULSE REPETITION RATE: 10KHz

RECEIVER SIZE AND CONFIGURATION: 7cm, biaxial

DETECTORS USED: InGaAs APD

SIGNAL PROCESSING: LabWindows

ANALOG-T0-DIGITAL CONVERTER: Sampling rate: 100MS/s, Bandwidth: 40MHz

COMPUTER: Pentium

PLATFORM (if applicable): Windows NT

PUBLICATIONS (5 recent and/or significant):

Fougères, André; Bélanger, Brigitte; Talbot, Mario, Industrial site particulate pollution monitoring with an eye-safe and scanning industrial fiber lidar, Water, Ground, and Air Pollution Monitoring and Remediation, Proceedings of SPIE 4199, p.67 (2000).

Bélanger, Brigitte; Fougères, André; Talbot, Mario and Roy, Gilles (DREV), Industrial fiber lidar: some applications, Application of Photonics Technology 4, Proceedings of SPIE Vol 4087, p.981 (2000)

Fougères, André; Bélanger, Brigitte; Talbot, Mario and Roy, Gilles (DREV) Eye-safe portable scanning lidar for environmental mapping of particulates and hard targets, Proceedings of the infrared information symposia 3rd NATO-IRIS Joint symposium, Vol. 43, No. 1, p.91, July 1999

COMMENTS: This is a fiber coupled lidar.