Sirta
SIRTA stands for Site Instrumental de Recherche par Télédétection
Atmosphérique. It is a French national atmospheric observatory
dedicated to cloud and aerosol research. SIRTA is located in Palaiseau
(49N, 2E), 20 km south of Paris (France) in a semi-urban environment.
The observatory gathers and operates a suite of state-of-the-art active
and passive remote sensing instruments from a large community to
document and monitor an ensemble of radiative and dynamic processes in
the atmosphere. The detailed description of the state of the
atmospheric column is archived and made accessible to the scientific
community. EZ Lidar ALS450 collected measurements continuously are stored in a climatological database
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NASA/GSFC
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major U.S. laboratory for developing and operating unmanned
scientific spacecraft. The Center manages many of NASA's Earth
Observation, Astronomy, and Space Physics missions. GSFC includes
several other properties, most significantly the Wallops Flight
Facility near Chincoteague, Virginia. EZ Lidar ALS450 is deployed together with NASA Micro Pulse Lidar and it is mainly used for field campaigns by the MPLNET team
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University of Reading
The Department of Meteorology is internationally renowned for its
excellent teaching and
research in atmospheric, oceanic and climate science. In the most
recent UK university research assessment exercise (Dec 2008) the
weather, climate and
environmental science
research gained a top rating. EZ Lidar is used in the frame of CloudNET project.
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