Airborne oceanographic lidar

One of the main tasks of the ACSYS Arctic sea ice program is to establish the climatology of ice thickness and ice velocity. Data about this will be supplied by the WCRP Arctic Ice Thickness Project, the International Arctic Buoy Program, sonar profiling from naval submarines and unmanned vehicles, airborne oceanographic lidar, and polar satellites carrying appropriate instruments. 

J.A. Yoder, J. Aiken, R.N. Swift, F.E. Hoge, P.M. Stegmann (1993). Spatial variability in near-surface chlorophyll a fluorescence measured by the Airborne Oceanographic Lidar (AOL). Deep-Sea Res., 40, 37-53. 

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