Plenary Lecture

Implementation of a Lidar System and its Usage in Characterization of Atmospheric Column

Professor Hamed Parsiani
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (UPRM)
Campus PO Box 9000, Mayaguez, P.R. 00681-9000
PUERTO RICO
E-mail: parsiani@ece.uprm.edu

Abstract: Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) is a recent remote sensing system which has been gradually expanding as a network among the countries actively concerned about the atmospheric contaminants, earth radiation budget, rain variations, clean air index, etc. In this work, the design of a typical Lidar, ground or satellite based system for three or more wavelengths is explained. Essential parameters for the atmospheric characterizations such as Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), Angstrom coefficient, Single/Multiple scattering Albedo, and Aerosol Effective Radius (AEF) are explored and the required mathematics and the needed wavelengths for their determination are presented. These parameters have been calculated and plotted based on three Lidar system wavelengths of 355, 532, and 1064 nms and the data obtained from Lidars in New York and Puerto Rico. The relationship between the essential parameters presented by the plots and the atmospheric behavior is explained.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Hamed Parsiani is a full professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM). He is currently directing the development of the first three wavelengths Lidar System laboratory for the advanced atmospheric research in Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean region. He is the research director of the UPRM NOAA-CREST grant which is now in its seventh year, covering research in Tropospheric, Hydroclimate, and Coastal Remote Sensing areas. He is presently a UPRM-PI of grant sponsored by NSF-FUSION company in the area of Aquifer Delineation using Ground Penetrating Radar. His interests are in remote sensing using radar and lidar, image processing, image compression, soil type, soil moisture, and aquifer detection using ground penetrating radar.
His earlier research grants were sponsored by GSSI Inc. (PI), NASA-Tropical Research Center (Co-PI), NSF-PRECISE, NASA-PaSCOR as research collaborator. He contributed in the development of JPEG compression algorithm during his research work with Bell Communications Research (BELCOR), and Global Positioning System (GPS), a NASA grant. He was the co-organizer and co-chair of two NOAA-CREST Technical Symposiums (2006 & 2008), the chair of the International Symposium on Intelligent Systems in Communications (SISCAP-94) held at UPRM. He has served on several conferences paper review boards, and has over 50 publications in journals and proceedings.
He is an alumnus of the Oregon State University (BS EE & Math), and Texas A&M University (MEE, PhD in ECE), and a member of Eta Kappa Nu honor society, and IEEE.