Optical and Laser Remote Sensing

1 IR Differential-Absorption LIDAR (DIAL) Techniques.- 1.1 Airborne Remote Sensing Measurements With a Pulsed CO2 Dial System.- 1.2 Differential-Absorption Measurements With Fixed-Frequency IR and UV Lasers.- 1.3 Remote Sensing of Hydrazine Compounds Using a Dual Mini-TEA CO2 Laser DIAL System.- 1.4 The Hull Coherent DIAL Programme.- 1.5 Remote Measurement of Trace Gases With the JPL Laser Absorption Spectrometer.- 1.6 Laser Remote Sensing Measurements of Atmospheric Species and Natural Target Reflectivities.- 1.7 Airborne CO2 Laser Heterodyne Sensor for Monitoring Regional Ozone Distributions.- 2 Spectrometric Techniques.- 2.1 Tunable Laser Heterodyne Spectrometer Measurements of Atmospheric Species.- 2.2 Interferometric Measurements of Atmospheric Species.- 2.3 Remote Sensing by Infrared Heterodyne Spectroscopy.- 2.4 Detection of Trace Gases Using High-Resolution IR Spectroscopy.- 2.5 Gaseous Correlation Spectrometric Measurements.- 2.6 Measurements of Atmospheric Trace Gases by Long Path Differential UV/Visible Absorption Spectroscopy.- 2.7 Measurements of HONO, NO3, and NO2 by Long-Path Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy in the Los Angeles Basin.- 2.8 Remote Detection of Gases by Gas Correlation Spectroradiometry.- 3 UV-Visible DIAL Techniques.- 3.1 Atmospheric Pressure and Temperature Profiling Using Near IR Differential Absorption Lidar.- 3.2 Ground-Based Ultraviolet Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) System and Measurements.- 3.3 Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Gases and Aerosols With an Airborne DIAL System.- 3.4 Pollution Monitoring Using Nd:YAG Based Lidar Systems.- 4 Atmospheric Propagation and System Analysis.- 4.1 Effects of Atmospheric Obscurants on the Propagation of Optical/IR Radiation.- 4.2 The Effects of Target-Induced Speckle, AtmosphericTurbulence, and Beam Pointing Jitter on the Errors in Remote Sensing Measurements.- 4.3 Lidar System Analysis for Measurement of Atmospheric Species.- 4.4 CO2 DIAL Sensitivity Studies for Measurements of Atmospheric Trace Gases.- 4.5 Signal Averaging Limitations in Heterodyne- and Direct-Detection Laser Remote Sensing Measurements.- 5 UV-Fluorescence Remote Sensing.- 5.1 Rayleigh and Resonance Sounding of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere.- 5.2 High-Resolution Lidar System for Measuring the Spatial and Temporal Structure of the Mesospheric Sodium Layer.- 5.3 Remote Sensing of OH in the Atmosphere Using the Technique of Laser-Induced Fluorescence.- 5.4 Use of the Fraunhofer Line Discriminator (FLD) for Remote Sensing of Materials Stimulated to Luminesce by the Sun.- 5.5 Ozone and Water Vapor Monitoring Using a Ground-Based Lidar System.- 5.6 The NASA/Goddard Balloon Borne Lidar System.- 6 Laser Sources and Detectors.- 6.1 Development of Compact Excimer Lasers for Remote Sensing.- 6.2 Solid-State Laser Sources for Remote Sensing.- 6.3 Progress in Laser Sources for Remote Sensing.- 6.4 Review of NDRE Remote Sensing Program and Development of High Pressure RF Excited CO2 Waveguide Lasers.- 6.5 Progress in Dye and Excimer Laser Sources for Remote Sensing.- 6.6 IR Detectors: Heterodyne and Direct.- 7 Advanced Optical Techniques.- 7.1 Optical Remote Sensing of Environmental Pollution and Danger by Molecular Species Using Low-Loss Optical Fiber Network System.- 7.2 In situ Ultratrace Gas Detection by Photothermal Spectroscopy: An Overview.- 7.3 Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS): A New Spectrochemical Technique.- 7.4 The High Spectral Resolution Lidar.- 8 Lidar Technology.- 8.1 Lidar Measurements of Clouds.- 8.2 Coherent IR Radar Technology.- 8.3 Tactical and AtmosphericCoherent Laser Radar Technology.- 8.4 Atmospheric Remote Sensing Using the NOAA Coherent Lidar System.- 8.5 Coherent CO2 Lidar Systems for Remote Atmospheric Measurements.- 8.6 Wide-Area Air Pollution Measurement by the NIES Large Lidar.- 8.7 ALPHA-1/Alarm Airborne Lidar Systems and Measurements.- Index of Contributors.