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  • Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1999),
  • paper RThA2

Horizontal Visibility Measurement with Lidar

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Abstract

A ceilometer is a backscatter lidar that is designed especially for cloud base altitude measurements. Since the clouds provide a strong backscatter signal, even a low power and small aperture lidar can do the job.

© 1999 Optical Society of America

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