CAN THE LIDAR BE PLACED ON A SHIP OR ON AN AIRCRAFT?
Yes, thanks to its compacity the EZ Lidar can easily be put on a lightaircraft, on a light boat and a ship. In order to obtain the same results thanon the ground, the are two solutions to put the Lidar in a mobileconfigurations:
-To put it on a mobile plate that conserve the horizontality anytime
-To record the rolling and pitching data (inertial central) during themeasurements so that the user can post correct the Lidar data with the aimingangle.


CAN YOUR LIDAR BE USED FOR DAYTIME OBSERVATIONS? WHAT DETECTION (PHOTONCOUNTING OR ANALOG) ARE USED?
Of course our EZ Lidar can be used for daytime observations, and I want to pointout that compared to some micro joules Lidar systems, the EZ Lidar has a muchbetter efficiency. Indeed, with or without photon counting channel our Lidarcan be used with almost the same performances during day or night.Leosphere's engineers managed to solve this daytime observation problem byapplying a multiple-step filtering method which reduces the background signaldown to a few percents. As a result, EASY LIDAR provides data of almost thesame accuracy during daytime and night time.

This point is very important because daytime observation allows the user thefollow the PBL diurnal evolution and other parameter continuously, it alsoallows to couple the Lidar with a photometer.


CAN I GET THE MASS CONCENTRATION OF THE AEROSOL?
Yes, thanks to nephelometers or in situ instruments, we can know thespecificities of reflection and absorption of the local particle volume.Coupled to the Lidar extinction data, there is a scientific relation that hasbeen proved, which allows to get the mass concentration. If you need furtherinformation please contact Laurent Sauvage: lsauvage@leosphere.fr .


WHAT PARAMETERS DOES THE SOFTWARE PROVIDE?
We do provide both processed and raw data.
The sequence that our software performs in quasi real time is the following:

From the raw signal, we compute a range corrected signal showing the structuresof aerosol and clouds. Then we calibrate the signal against a molecularreference found in a clear sky area (without any cloud nor aerosols). Weeventually retrieve individual profiles for raw data, range corrected data(PR2), extinction, optical depth, cloud & BL height. It can also displaythe temporal evolution of PR2 data, cloud & BL and extinction againstheight.