Abstract Light detection and ranging (LiDAR), also known as laser detection and ranging (LaDAR) or optical radar, is an active remote sensing technique which uses electromagnetic energy in the optical range to detect an object (target), determine the distance between the target and the instrument (range), and deduce physical properties of the object based on interaction of the radiation with the target through phenomena such as scattering, absorption, reflection, and fluorescence. LiDAR has many applications in the scientific, engineering, and military fields. LiDAR sensors have been deployed at fixed terrestrial stations, in mobile surface and subsurface vehicles, lighter-than-air crafts, fixed and rotary wing aircraft, satellites, interplanetary probes, and planetary landers and rovers. This chapter provides a high-level overview of the principles of operation of LiDAR technology and its main applications performed from space-based platforms such as satellite altimetry, atmospheric profiling, and on-orbit imaging and ranging.
Lidar Remote Sensing
Handbook of Satellite Applications ; 757-808
2013-01-01
52 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Active remote sensing , Atmospheric , CALIOP , CALIPSO , DIAL , Differential absorption LiDAR , Doppler LiDAR , Fluorescence LiDAR , GLAS , ICESat , International Laser Ranging Service , Ladar , Laser altimeter , Laser detection and ranging , Laser remote sensing , LiDAR , Light detection and ranging , LLR , Lunar laser ranging , OBSS , Optical radar , Raman LiDAR , Satellite laser ranging , Scattering LiDAR , SLR Engineering , Aerospace Technology and Astronautics , Applied and Technical Physics , Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry , Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks , Communications Engineering, Networks , Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences , Lidar Remote Sensing
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