Joint NASA payload/CNES spacecraft mission operations team – seamless, collegial, and effective. Unsung heroes that kept the lights on.... Pioneered lidar remote sensing algorithms/software system that set the standard for future missions. Effective validation program with airborne/ground based measurement system.

This paper describes how the CALIPSO mission came to be, discusses some of the early choices made by the CALIPSO team that shaped the mission, and some of the challenges facing the team in developing the first-ever global climatologies of aerosol and cloud based on lidar observations.

2024年7月6日 · This paper describes how the CALIPSO mission came to be, discusses some of the early choices made by the CALIPSO team that shaped the mission, and some of the challenges facing the team in developing the first-ever global climatologies of aerosol and cloud based on lidar observations.

NASA's Langley Research Center leads the CALIPSO mission and provides project management, science team leader-ship, systems engineering, payload mission operations, and validation, processing and archiving of data.

2023年9月11日 · CALIPSO provides new insight into the role that clouds and atmospheric aerosols (airborne particles) play in regulating Earth's weather, climate, and air quality. Experience Earth, our solar system, nearby asteroids, the universe, and the spacecraft exploring them with immersive real-time 3D web-based apps for Mac, PC and mobile devices.

CALIPSO mission came to be, discusses some of the early choices made by the CALIPSO team that shaped the mission, and some of the challenges facing the team in developing the first-ever global climatol-ogies of aerosol and cloud based on lidar observations. Keywords: space lidar, active remote sensing, clouds, aerosols 1 Introduction

2023年9月26日 · CALIPSO, a lidar satellite that advanced the world’s understanding of climate, weather, and air quality, ended its scientific mission on Aug. 1, 2023. Researchers used the space-based CALIPSO lidar to measure the planet’s largest animal migration, which takes place when small sea creatures swim up from the depths at night to feed on ...

CALIPSO was a joint NASA (US) and CNES (France) environmental satellite, built in the Cannes Mandelieu Space Center, which was launched atop a Delta II rocket on April 28, 2006. Its name stands for Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations .

This paper describes how the CALIPSO mission came to be, discusses some of the early choices made by the CALIPSO team that shaped the mission, and some of the challenges facing the team in developing the first-ever global climatologies of aerosol and cloud based on lidar observations.

2024年6月10日 · Flying as part of the A-train constellation stimulated the discovery of numerous retrieval synergies between lidar and other sensors in the A-train. This paper takes a look back at the development of the CALIPSO mission concept and some of the challenges that faced the team. Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.