Whether you are a meteorological office feeding forecasting models with continuous atmospheric data, or a research institute leading atmospheric research field campaigns, you certainly need to access to a continuous and standardized measurement of atmospheric structures : vertical profile of aerosol structure, evolution of atmospheric boundary layer height, clouds’ height, identification of aerosol plums in industrial areas. Until now, remote-sensing was partly realized by various techniques such as tethered balloons, ceilometers, non eye-safe laboratory LIDARs, passive spatial observations.

None of these allowed to collect simultaneously space resolved, real-time and high-resolution data on aerosol layers. Among these techniques, LIDARs were promising. However, their high level of maintenance discouraged atmospheric scientists and operators from using them as ordinary sensors.

ALS300 and ALS450 bring a definitive alternative to this situation by offering an unattended, eye-safe, compact LIDAR with unmatched performance, ideally designed for network atmospheric observations. Co-developed with the Climate and Environmental Science Laboratory (CNRS and CEA, France), ALS is pioneering the era of network LIDAR observations.