Papers are solicited on the following suggested and related topics:

Lidar technologies and methods

• Laser sources (solid state, eye safe, fiber, spaceborne, etc.)
• Lidar components (mirrors, space mirrors, detectors, imagers, trackers, etc.)
• Methodologies (DIAL, Raman, coherent, polarization, high spectral resolution, multiple scattering, fluorescence,etc.)
• Retrieval (Inversion techniques, primary and secondary products, etc.)
• Atmospheric optics (Multiple scattering, turbulence, scintillation, etc.)
• Lidar simulation

Fundamental Measurements

• Aerosols and clouds (tropospheric and stratospheric, mapping, particle concentration and size, depolarization, liquid or solid phase, ...)
• Biological aerosols
• Temperature and water vapor
• Trace gases and chemistry (Ozone, green house gases, ...)
• Winds (Coherent and incoherent detection, airborne, spaceborne, ...)
  

Lidar Measurements Applied to Science Applications

• Atmospheric dynamics, radiative transfer, radiation budget, ...
• Global weather
• Climate change
• Severe storms
• Stratospheric ozone loss
• Regional to global-scale pollution (chemistry, dust, smokes, identification, mapping, transport,... )
• Global cloud and aerosol observations
• Vegetation
• Hydrology
• Commercial applications
• Altimetry, ground mapping, ...

Networking

• Transport of aerosols, dusts, pollution
• Spatial and temporal correlation of concentrations
• Long-term monitoring
• Impact on earth radiation budget
• Coordination between space and aircraft observations
• Current and foreseen research issues
• Future needs

Space programs

• Current programs (Atmospheric scientific issues, promises, retrieval methods, needed research, ...)
• Planned programs (Science and application issues, needed research and developments, ...)
• Future scientific and technical challenges
• Collaboration and coordination with ground-based lidar stations
• Global cloud and aerosol observations
• Precision altimery