Measurements and Applications
cloud and aerosol lidar profiling
Full Name
Cloud-Aerosol Transport System
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Lidars 
Geometry
Nadir-viewing
Instrument Technology
Atmospheric lidar
Sampling
Sounding
Data Access
Open Access
Data Format
HDF-5
Resolution
60 m vertical by 350 horizontal, from 0 - 30 km
Waveband
532 and 1064 nm (polarization sensing at both)
| VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm) |
| NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm) |
CATS-on-ISS - International Space Station/Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (2015 - 2018) |