RESEARCH ASSOCIATES:
Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University

MAILING ADDRESS:
Saitoh@cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp

TELEPHONE NUMBER:
+81-26-269-5457

FAX NUMBER:
+81-26-269-5495

E-MAIL ADDRESS:
Saitoh@cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp

WEB SITE: http://www.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp/Lab/KAN/index.html (in Japanese)

DATE:

LIDAR LOCATION (CITY, COUNTRY, LAT., LONG.):
…Nagano, Japan,

SITE ELEVATION:
…360m

PARAMETER(S) OR CONSTITUENT(S) MEASURED:
…Aerosols at lower atmosphere, Clouds, Plume exhausted from a stack

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND SPONSOR:
…Environmental monitoring

MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE:
…Mie scattering detection, Laser-induced fluorescence detection.

MEASUREMENT RANGE:
…Several kilo-meters

VERTICAL RESOLUTION:
3m

FREQ. OF MEASUREMENT (TYPICALLY):
Once a week

MEASUREMENT TIMES (TYPICALLY):
…Several hours

LASER TYPE AND WAVELENGTH (s):
Second Harmonic Nd:YAG laser at 532nm, CH4 Raman shifted Nd:YAG laser at 1.54 micron

LASER ENERGY/PULSE:
30mJ

PULSE REPETITION RATE:
…10Hz

RECEIVER SIZE AND CONFIGURATION:
…Schmidt Cassegrainian telescope with a 10inch diameter

DETECTORS USED:
…PMT, APD, CCD camera

SIGNAL PROCESSING:
…Analogue detection and/or Photon-counting detection

ANALOG-T0-DIGITAL CONVERTER:
…Oscilloscope (Textronics)

COMPUTER:
…PC (NEC and Gateway)

PLATFORM (if applicable):

PUBLICATIONS (5 recent and/or significant):
…1 Possibility of hard-target lidar detection of a biogenic volatile organic compound, a-pinen gas, over forest areas, Y. Saito, P. Weibring, H. Edner, and S. Svanberg, Applied Optics, Vol. 40, pp. 3572-3574, 2001.

…2 Comparison of experiment and simulation of range (time) -resolved laser multiple scattering in cloud, Y. Saito, K. Tanaka, T. D. Kawahara, and A. Nomura, Proceeding of SPIE, Volume 4153, pp. 209-217, 2000.

…3 A 1.54 micron Mie lidar operating in photon-counting mode, Y. Saito, T. Yoshida, and A. Nomura, in abstracts of 20th ILRC (Vichy, France), July, 2000

…4 Development and performance characteristics of laser-induced fluorescnce imaging lidar for forestry applications, Y. Saito, R. Saito, T. D. Kawahara, A. Nomura, and S. Takeda, Forest Ecology and Management, Vol. 128, pp. 129-137, 2000.

…5 Characteristics of InAlGaAs/InAlAs superlattice avalanche photodiodes for ultra-low optical power detection in the near-infrared, Y. Saito, T. Maruyama, H. Yamaki, F. Kobayashi, T. D. Kawahara, A. Nomura, and M. Tanaka, Optical Review, Vol. 6, pp. 459-463, 1999.