LIDAR RESEARCHER:
Dr. Hamed Parsiani, UPRM ECE professor

MAILING ADDRESS: 
PO Box 5102
Mayaguez, PR 00681

TELEPHONE NUMBER:
787-599-3308

FAX NUMBER:                                 
787-833-1190                         

E-MAIL ADDRESS:                          
Parsiani@ece.uprm.edu

WEB SITE:                                         
http://ece.uprm.edu/noaa-crest/

DATE:                                                
Jan 23, 2009

LIDAR LOCATION                          
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
18.30144  N   67.20033  W

SITE ELEVATION:                            
11 m

PARAMETER(S) OR CONSTITUENT(S) MEASURED:
With 3-l backscatter Lidar + sunphotometer : Backscatter coefficient, Aerosol Optical Depth,
LR, Extinction coeff. (approx.), Angstrom, ASD.

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND SPONSOR: 
Advanced Atmospheric Research, NOAA-CREST With UPRM cost share.

MEASUREMENT RANGE: 
40 m to a max of 50 to 80 Km depending on the optical depth, and the settings of LabView, normally we have been observing from 40 m to 12 Km.

VERTICAL RESOLUTION: 
0.9 m

FREQ. OF MEASUREMENT (TYPICALLY): 
undecided

MEASUREMENT TIMES (TYPICALLY): 
undecided

LASER TYPE AND WAVELENGTH (s): 
Brilliant B 355, 532, 1064nms

LASER ENERGY/PULSE: 
700mJ at 1064nm

PULSE REPETITION RATE: 
20 Hz

RECEIVER SIZE AND CONFIGURATION: 
2 beam splitters, 3 interference filters for day or night data acquisitions, attenuators as needed.

DETECTORS USED: 
2 PMTs, 1 APD

SIGNAL PROCESSING: 
3 channels Transient Recorders

ANALOG-T0-DIGITAL CONVERTER: 
20 MHz

COMPUTER: 
DELL

PLATFORM: 
LabView data processing software

PUBLICATIONS: 

• Hamed Parsiani, Andres Bonilla, “Aerosol Size Distribution Using Sun-Photometer AOD data of Five wavelengths and Artificial Neural Network”, WSEAS Journal of Systems, Aug. 2008.

• Hamed Parsiani, Javier Mendez, “Aerosol Size Distribution using Lidar Data and a Typical Lidar Assembly”,WSEAS Journal of Systems, Aug. 2008.

• Hamed Parsiani, Andres Bonilla, “Aerosol Size Distribution Using Sun-Photometer and Artificial Neural Network”, WSEAS-08 Proceedings, Aug. 22-24, 2008 Crete, Greece.

• Hamed Parsiani, Javier Mendez, “UPRM Lidar Assembly and Application to Aerosol Characterization,”WSEAS-08 Proceedings, Aug. 22-24, 2008, Crete, Greece.

• Andres Bonilla, Hamed Parsiani, “Aerosol Optical Depth Spatial Variation as sensed by a Sunphotometer and compared to a fixed AERONET station,” SIP-08, Aug. 18-20,2008, Hawaii