Description: The improvements, environmental testing, and airborne testing proposed in this effort of the lidar system incorporating auto-alignment technologies developed under earlier funding significantly advances the readiness of the system for ground, airborne, and space-based applications including: Atmospheric wind measurements using coherent Doppler lidar Hard target precisions tracking, discrimination, and imaging at long range and with future modification, CO2 and H20 concentrations measurements using Integrated Path Differential Absorption (IPDA) lidar

Benefits: NASA Applications/Missions: Earth Sciences: 3d Winds (Wind-SP) – Technology Area 8.1 Airborne Wind Profiler Cloud Aerosol CO2 Emissions IPDA (ASCENDS)

Non-NASA & DOD Air Force Weather System Follow-on Air Force Precision Air-Drop Logistics SOCOM Gun-ship Ballistics Winds Aviation Clear Air Turbulence Aviation Aircraft Wake Detection