Download or read book Development and Deployment of a Compact Eye Safe Scanning Differential Absorption Lidar DIAL for Spatial Mapping of Carbon Dioxide for Monitoring Verification Accounting at Geologic Sequestration Sites written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scanning differential absorption lidar (DIAL) instrument for monitoring carbon dioxide has been developed. The laser transmitter uses two tunable discrete mode laser diodes (DMLD) operating in the continuous wave (cw) mode with one locked to the online absorption wavelength and the other operating at the offline wavelength. Two in-line fiber optic switches are used to switch between online and offline operation. After the fiber optic switch, an acousto- optic modulator (AOM) is used to generate a pulse train used to injection seed an erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) to produce eye-safe laser pulses with maximum pulse energies of 66 {micro}J, a pulse repetition frequency of 15 kHz, and an operating wavelength of 1.571 {micro}m. The DIAL receiver uses a 28 cm diameter Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope to collect that backscattered light, which is then monitored using a photo-multiplier tube (PMT) module operating in the photon counting mode. The DIAL instrument has been operated from a laboratory environment on the campus of Montana State University, at the Zero Emission Research Technology (ZERT) field site located in the agricultural research area on the western end of the Montana State University campus, and at the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership site located in north-central Montana. DIAL data has been collected and profiles have been validated using a co-located Licor LI-820 Gas Analyzer point sensor.

Download or read book Development of a Differential Absorption LIDAR for Identification of Carbon Sequestration Site Leakage written by William Eric Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis describes the development and deployment of a near-infrared scanning micropulse differential absorption lidar (DIAL) system for monitoring carbon dioxide sequestration site integrity. The DIAL utilizes a custom-built lidar (light detection and ranging) transmitter system based on two commercial tunable diode lasers operating at 1.571 micron, an acousto-optic modulator, fiber optic switches, and an Erbium-doped fiber amplifier to generate 65 mJ 200 ns pulses at a 15 kHz repetition rate. Backscattered laser transmitter light is collected with an 11 inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope where it is optically filtered to reduce background noise. A fiber-coupled photomultiplier tube operating in the photon counting mode is then used to monitor the collected return signal. Averaging over periods typically of one hour permit range-resolved measurements of carbon dioxide from 1 to 2.5 km with a typical error of 40 ppm. For monitoring a field site, the system scans over a field area by pointing the transmitter and receiver with a computer controlled motorized commercial telescope base. The system has made autonomous field measurements in an agricultural field adjacent to Montana State University and at the Kevin Dome carbon sequestration site in rural northern Montana. Comparisons have been made with an in situ sensor showing agreement between the two measurements to within the 40 error of the DIAL. In addition to the work on the 1.57 micron DIAL, this thesis also presents work done at NASA Langley Research Center on the development and deployment of a 2 micron integrated path differential absorption (IPDA) lidar. The 2 micron system utilizes a low repetition rate 140 mJ double pulsed Ho:Tm:YLF laser developed at NASA Langley.

Download or read book Solid State 2 Micron Laser Transmitter Advancement for Wind and Carbon Dioxide Measurements from Ground Airborne and Space Based Lidar Systems written by Upendra N. Singh and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NASA Langley Research Center has been developing 2-micron lidar technologies over a decade for wind measurements, utilizing coherent Doppler wind lidar technique and carbon dioxide measurements, utilizing Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) technique. Significant advancements have been made towards developing state-of-the-art technologies towards laser transmitters, detectors, and receiver systems. These efforts have led to the development of solid-state lasers with high pulse energy, tunablility, wavelength-stability, and double-pulsed operation. This paper will present a review of these technological developments along with examples of high resolution wind and high precision CO2 DIAL measurements in the atmosphere. Plans for the development of compact high power lasers for applications in airborne and future space platforms for wind and regional to global scale measurement of atmospheric CO2 will also be discussed.

Download or read book Development of an Eye safe Diode laser based Micro pulse Differential Absorption Lidar mp DIAL for Atmospheric Water vapor and Aerosol Studies written by Amin Reza Nehrir and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation describes the design, construction, and testing of an all diode-laser-based water-vapor differential absorption lidar (DIAL) instrument through two distinct stages of development. A second generation low pulse energy, high pulse repetition frequency DIAL instrument was developed to overcome the power limitations of the first generation instrument which required unrealistic integration times approaching 1 hour. The second generation DIAL transmitter used a custom built external cavity diode laser (ECDL) as the seed source for an actively current pulsed tapered semiconductor optical amplifier (TSOA), yielding a maximum output transmitter pulse energy of 2 microjoules over a 1 microsecond duration pulse width at a 20 kHz pulse repetition frequency, decreasing the required integration Period to approximately 20-30 minutes. Nighttime and daytime water-vapor profiles were collected with the second generation DIAL instrument which showed good agreement with collocated radiosonde measurements from near the surface up to the top of the planetary boundary layer. Aerosol optical properties were also measured using the calibrated offline channel returns using the iterative Fernald solution to the lidar equation. Most recently, a third generation DIAL transmitter has been developed to further increase the output pulse energy and to also decrease the DIAL atmospheric spectral sampling time. Two custom built high power ECDL's and an electro-mechanical based fiber optic switch are used to sequentially seed a single stage actively current pulsed TSOA in order to minimize the systematic errors introduced in the DIAL retrievals resulting from air-mass miss-sampling between the two DIAL wavelengths. Peak output pulse energies of 7 microjoules have been measured over 1 microsecond pulse durations at a 10 kHz pulse repetition frequency with a 1-6 second DIAL spectral switching time, further decreasing the total required integration period to 20 minutes for both nighttime and daytime operation. The increased performance of the third generation transmitter has allowed for nighttime and daytime water vapor profiling under varying atmospheric conditions that shows good agreement with collocated radiosonde measurements up to ~ 6 km and ~ 3 km, respectively. A detailed description of the second and third generation DIAL instrument performance as well as data retrievals are presented in this dissertation. Future work to improve the current third generation DIAL instrument for full-time autonomous measurements of atmospheric water-vapor and aerosols is also discussed.

Download or read book Design of Advanced Atmospheric Water Vapor Differential Absorption Lidar Dial Detection System written by National Aeronautics and Space Adm Nasa and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The measurement of atmospheric water vapor is very important for understanding the Earth's climate and water cycle. The lidar atmospheric sensing experiment (LASE) is an instrument designed and operated by the Langley Research Center for high precision water vapor measurements. The design details of a new water vapor lidar detection system that improves the measurement sensitivity of the LASE instrument by a factor of 10 are discussed. The new system consists of an advanced, very low noise, avalanche photodiode (APD) and a state-of-the-art signal processing circuit. The new low-power system is also compact and lightweight so that it would be suitable for space flight and unpiloted atmospheric vehicles (UAV) applications. The whole system is contained on one small printed circuit board (9 x 15 sq cm). The detection system is mounted at the focal plane of a lidar receiver telescope, and the digital output is read by a personal computer with a digital data acquisition card.Refaat, Tamer F. and Luck, William S., Jr. and DeYoung, Russell J.Langley Research CenterATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; WATER VAPOR; DESIGN ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDAR; DETECTION; AVALANCHES; SENSITIVITY; LOW NOISE; PHOTODIODES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; PRINTED CIRCUITS; LOW WEIGHT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIOS; ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING

Download or read book Differential Absorption LiDAR for the Total Column Measurement of Atmospheric CO2 from Space written by James Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of the industrial revolution (1750 to 1800) the Earth's atmospheric composition has undergone significant change as a result of human activities, in particular the burning of fossil fuels. As a consequence the atmospheric concentrations of a number of gases known to be influential to the Earth's climate have increased far beyond natural levels. Atmospheric gases such as carbon dioxide which naturally exist in the Earth system have increased in correlation with anthropogenic emissions. The effect of this perturbation on the Earth system has been predicted through computer simulations to have undesirable consequences on the Earth's future climate. The present measurement systems for atmospheric carbon dioxide have limited spatial coverage and temporal resolution which restricts their ability to accurately attribute observations of atmospheric composition to particular terrestrial sources and sinks. This inability to accurately locate and quantify the key carbon dioxide sources and sinks in the terrestrial and marine biospheres is hindering the understanding of the processes that are driving the Earth's natural uptake of approximately half of the anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. With such uncertainty it is currently unknown precisely how the Earth's climate will respond to global warming in the future. Through computer simulation it has been demonstrated that improving the spatial distribution of global measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide is likely to advance the present understanding of the Earth's terrestrial sources and sinks. Regions that require particular improvement in measurement coverage are the southern oceans owing to a lack of landmass on which to site instruments, and much of the tropics because of difficulties in locating instruments in some of the worlds more politically unstable regions. Satellite remote sensing instruments which measure atmospheric carbon dioxide from low Earth orbit provide some coverage of these sparsely sampled locations, however cloud cover often prevents measurements being made (particularly in the tropics), and limited latitudinal coverage caused by current instruments using passive remote sensing techniques prevents measurements at very high and low latitudes (including much of the southern ocean during local winter). An alternative remote sensing technique has been proposed in the scientific literature for measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations using laser emissions from a satellite platform known as total column differential absorption LiDAR (TC-DIAL). The TC-DIAL technique has been identified as having the theoretical potential to meet the coverage and precision requirements to greatly aid in identifying and quantifying terrestrial carbon dioxide sources and sinks. The TC-DIAL technique has the potential to achieve these goals largely owing to its unique capabilities of being able to make measurements during both the day and night and at all latitudes with a footprint which may be small enough to see between patchy cloud cover in the tropics. This thesis builds on previous studies of the TC-DIAL measurement technique from a satellite platform to assess its current and future capabilities to meet the observation requirements defined by the atmospheric carbon and modeling scientific communities. Particular investigations are carried out to assess the optimum system configuration in the context of global carbon modeling using up-to-date spectroscopy and instrument parameters for the latest technology. Optimum systems for both direct and heterodyne detection TC-DIAL instruments are defined, and it is found that direct detection provides the lowest retrieval errors under clear sky conditions. For a system based on current technology TC-DIAL retrievals are expected to have errors of approximately 0.68 ppm for direct detection and 1.01 ppm for heterodyne detection over a 50 km surface track. Using global cloud statistics two suitable pulse repetition frequencies (PRF) for a heterodyne detection system have been identified as 5 and 15 kHz. These PRF's provide the minimum probability of an effect known as cross signal contamination occurring when measurements are made in the presence of cloud. In this thesis it is shown that the retrieval error incurred by cross signal contamination is> 16 ppm for a heterodyne detection TC-DIAL system measuring through cloud with optical depth> 2. The most important retrieval error component in TC-DIAL retrievals has been found to be the uncertainties introduced by the use of numerical weather prediction data for the ancillary atmospheric profiles. The limited spatial resolution of current NWP models (> 20 km) implies the uncertainties associated with the ancillary data are required to be treated as systematic, and as a consequence their errors dominate over other TC-DIAL retrieval errors following multiple pulse integration.

Download or read book Comparison of 2 Micron Ho and 10 Micron Co2 Lidar for Atmospheric Backscatter and Doppler Windshear Detection written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of eye-safe, solid-state Lidar systems is discussed, with an emphasis on Coherent Doppler Lidar for Atmospheric Wind Measurements. The following subject areas are covered: tunable Ho DIAL (Differential Absorption Lidar)/lidar atmospheric measurements; atmospheric turbulence measurements and detector arrays; diurnal measurements of C(sub n)(sup 2) for KSC lidar measurements; and development of single-frequency Ho laser/lidar. Killinger, Dennis Unspecified Center NAG1-1104...

Download or read book Compact Ozone Differential Absorption Lidar Dial Transmitter Using Solid State Dye Polymers written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new potential DIAL laser transmitter is described that uses solid-state dye laser materials to make a simpler, more compact, lower mass laser system. Two solid-state dye laser materials were tested to evaluate their performance in a laser oscillator cavity end pumped by a pulsed Nd:YAG laser at 532 nm. The polymer host polymethyl-methacrylate was injected with a pyrromethene laser dye, PM 580, or PM 597. A narrowband laser oscillator cavity was constructed to produce visible wavelengths of 578 and 600 nm which were frequency doubled into the UV region (299 or 300 nm) by using a BBO crystal, resulting in a maximum energy of 11 mJ at a wavelength of 578 nm when pumped by the Nd:YAG laser at an energy of 100 mJ (532 nm). A maximum output energy of 378 microJ was achieved in the UV region at a wavelength of 289 nm but lasted only 2000 laser shots at a repetition rate of 10 Hz. The results are promising and show that a solid-state dye laser based ozone DIAL system is possible with improvements in the design of the laser transmitter.Jones, Alton L., Jr. and DeYoung, Russell J. and Elsayid-Ele, HaniLangley Research CenterDYE LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; TRANSMITTERS; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDAR; LASER CAVITIES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; DYES; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTRA; CRYSTALS; NARROWBAND; OSCILLATORS; OZONE

Download or read book A Compact Ozone Differential Absorption Lidar dial Transmitter Using a Solid state Dye Polymer written by Alton L. Jones (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Differential Absorption Lidars for Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Pressure and Temperature Profiles written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A near infrared differential absorption lidar technique is developed using atmospheric oxygen as a tracer for high resolution vertical profiles of pressure and temperature with high accuracy. Solid-state tunable lasers and high-resolution spectrum analyzers are developed to carry out ground-based and airborne measurement demonstrations and results of the measurements presented. Numerical error analysis of high-altitude airborne and spaceborne experiments is carried out, and system concepts developed for their implementation. Korb, C. Laurence and Schwemmer, Geary K. and Famiglietti, Joseph and Walden, Harvey and Prasad, Coorg Goddard Space Flight Center NASA-TM-104618, NAS 1.15:104618, REPT-95B00061, NIPS-96-08347 RTOP 460-28-40...

Download or read book Development and Preliminary Use of an Eye safe 2 1 micron Ho YSGG LIDAR written by Newton Sims and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Infrared Differential Absorption Lidar for Vapor Detection written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ground-mobile and airborne carbon dioxide laser systems were developed to measure vapor clouds using differential absorption lidar (DIAL) techniques. Field testing with the ground-mobile lidar detected a vapor cloud at 7 km using the return signal from a topographic target at a range of 8.5 km. Range-resolved detection enabled mapping of vapor cloud concentration to a range of at least 1 km. The airborne lidar mapped vertically integrated, cross-cloud gas concentrations at 3 km and detected vapor clouds 7 km downwind from the vapor source. Keywords: Standoff detection, Remote detection.

Download or read book An Ozone Differential Absorption Lidar Dial Receiver System for Use on Unpiloted Atmospheric Vehicles written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measurements of global atmosphere ozone concentrations call for flexible lidar systems that can be operated from an unpiloted atmospheric vehicle (UAV) to reduce the cost of measurement missions. A lidar receiver system consisting of a fiber-optic-coupled telescope has been designed and tested for this purpose. The system weight is 13 kg and its volume of 0.06 m 3 would fit into the payload compartment of a Perseus B UAV. The optical efficiency of the telescope is 37 percent at 288 nm and 64 percent at 300 nm. Atmospheric measurements with a DIAL laser system have been performed, and the measured ozone density has matched the data from ozonesondes to an altitude of 7 km.DeYoung, Russell J. and Goldschmidt, SoenkeLangley Research CenterOPTICAL RADAR; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDAR; RECEIVERS; TELESCOPES; GAS COMPOSITION; GAS DENSITY; COST REDUCTION

Download or read book Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy DOAS and Differential Absorption Lidar DIAL Applied to Atmospheric Mercury Monitoring written by Joachim Kamme and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book CCS Guidelines written by Sarah M. Forbes and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) Guidelines effort was initiated to develop a set of preliminary guidelines and recommendations for the deployment of CCS technologies in the United States, to ensure that CCS projects are conducted safely and effectively. The guidelines are written for those who may be involved in decisions on a proposed project: the developers, regulators, financiers, insurers, project operators, and policy makers. These guidelines are intended to guide full-scale demonstration of and build public confidence in CCS technologies by informing how projects should be conducted.

Download or read book Tunable Ultraviolet and Infrared Laser Source for Student Lidar Experiments written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tunable UV and IR laser source was purchased through this grant utilized in lidar experiments and evaluated for potential DoD applications. The laser technology was incorporated into the Hampton University(HU) ozone differential absorption lidar system and lidar measurements of ozone were made. This same technology approach was utilized in the design of the laser for the HU scanning eyesafe aerosol lidar system. This effort resulted in a second research proposal being submitted jointly by HU and ITT Industries with AFRL support to apply this technology to the problem of laser induced fluorescence detection of bioaerosols for airbase defense.

Download or read book Carbon Capture and Storage written by Mai Bui and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will provide the latest global perspective on the role and value of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in delivering temperature targets and reducing the impact of global warming. As well as providing a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the major sources of carbon dioxide emission and negative emissions technologies, the book also discusses technical, economic and political issues associated with CCS along with strategies to enable commercialisation.