The establishment of a Lidar facility at Rhodes University

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dc.contributor.advisorGledhill, Jack
dc.contributor.authorGrant, Richard Peter James Seton
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-03T13:37:57Z
dc.date.issued1988
dc.description.abstractLIDAR is the optical equivalent of RADAR. A LIDAR facility has been established at Rhodes University using a flashlamp-pumped dye laser as the transmitter and a photomultiplier tube at the focus of a searchlight mirror as the receiver. The setting up of the receiver and transmitter as well as the design and construction of the photon counting electronics is described. The LIDAR has been used to measure aerosol scattering ratios and temperature profiles in the stratosphere and these results are presented with the algorithms and software used to reduce the data. Finally some recommendations are made for future work
dc.description.degreeMaster's thesis
dc.description.degreeMSc
dc.format.extent177 pages
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.otherhttp://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001998
dc.identifier.urihttps://researchrepository.ru.ac.za/handle/123456789/4248
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherRhodes University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics and Electronics
dc.rightsGrant, Richard Peter James Seton
dc.subjectOptical radar
dc.subjectLIDAR
dc.subjectReceiver
dc.subjectTransmitter
dc.subjectPhoton counting electronics
dc.subjectAerosol scattering
dc.subjectTemperature profiles
dc.subjectStratosphere
dc.titleThe establishment of a Lidar facility at Rhodes University
dc.typeAcademic thesis

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