The establishment of a Lidar facility at Rhodes University

Title: The establishment of a Lidar facility at Rhodes University
Creator: Grant, Richard Peter James Seton
ThesisAdvisor: Gledhill, Jack
Subject: Optical radar
Subject: LIDAR
Subject: Receiver
Subject: Transmitter
Subject: Photon counting electronics
Subject: Aerosol scattering
Subject: Temperature profiles
Subject: Stratosphere
Date: 1988
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MSc
Identifier: vital:5445
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001998
Description: LIDAR is the optical equivalent of RADAR. A LIDAR facility has been established at Rhodes University using a flashlamp-pumped dye laser as the transmitter and a photomultiplier tube at the focus of a searchlight mirror as the receiver. The setting up of the receiver and transmitter as well as the design and construction of the photon counting electronics is described. The LIDAR has been used to measure aerosol scattering ratios and temperature profiles in the stratosphere and these results are presented with the algorithms and software used to reduce the data. Finally some recommendations are made for future work
Format: 177 leaves, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Science, Physics and Electronics
Language: English
Rights: Grant, Richard Peter James Seton

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