Design of Inversion Procedure for the Airborne CO<sub>2</sub>-IPDA LIDAR: A Preliminary Study

China will launch the atmospheric environment monitoring satellite, which is equipped with a CO<sub>2</sub>-integrated path differential absorption (IPDA) LIDAR, in the coming years. The space-borne IPDA LIDAR is believed to supplement current passive remote sensing techniques in terms o...

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Autores principales: Chengzhi Xiang, Xin Ma, Xingying Zhang, Ge Han, Wanchun Zhang, Binglong Chen, Ailin Liang, Wei Gong
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:6a4e54ea5a304a149bafa91e7392a5b32021-12-02T00:00:04ZDesign of Inversion Procedure for the Airborne CO<sub>2</sub>-IPDA LIDAR: A Preliminary Study2151-153510.1109/JSTARS.2021.3127564https://doaj.org/article/6a4e54ea5a304a149bafa91e7392a5b32021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9613777/https://doaj.org/toc/2151-1535China will launch the atmospheric environment monitoring satellite, which is equipped with a CO<sub>2</sub>-integrated path differential absorption (IPDA) LIDAR, in the coming years. The space-borne IPDA LIDAR is believed to supplement current passive remote sensing techniques in terms of effective observations at nights, as well as in high-latitude regions and heavily polluted areas. Currently, no LIDAR-based satellite is operational for CO<sub>2</sub> detection in orbit despite the fact that Active Sensing of CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions over Nights, Days, and Seasons (ASCENDS) and Advanced Space Carbon and Climate Observation of Planet Earth (A-SCOPE) are dedicated to fill this gap. However, the ESA mission proposal A-SCOPE dedicated for CO<sub>2</sub> measurement was not selected, and ASCENDS from NASA remains in the loop but on low priority. Therefore, it is of great significance to explore the feasibility and effectiveness of this novel technique and to identify potential differences among its CO<sub>2</sub> concentration products and the passive remote sensing technique. In this article, we developed an initial data-processing procedure for an airborne CO<sub>2</sub>-IPDA LIDAR, which is the minified prototype of the forthcoming space-borne LIDAR. We tested the effectiveness of this procedure and evaluated the performance of the minified prototype in a flight test over ocean, urban, and mountainous terrain. The column-weighted xCO<sub>2</sub> (XCO<sub>2</sub>) retrievals obtained by the airborne IPDA LIDAR were considerably more sensitive to the gradients of the dry-air mixing ratio of CO<sub>2</sub> (xCO<sub>2</sub>) than the XCO<sub>2</sub> products of OCO-2 and <italic>in situ</italic> measurements of point xCO<sub>2</sub>. The mean XCO<sub>2</sub> values over the ocean, urban, and mountainous area were 411.07, 425.71, and 417.87 ppm with STDs of 1.93, 0.85, and 0.96 ppm, respectively. We used altitude-dependent xCO<sub>2</sub> obtained by a decline-climb flight to calculate a reference for XCO<sub>2</sub> over the ocean. The difference between XCO<sub>2</sub> obtained using two means was less than 0.5 ppm. Moreover, the actual random error coincided well with the simulated random error, suggesting that our previous performance-evaluation model was reliable. This model predicted that a relative random error of less than 0.3&#x0025; would be very likely for the forthcoming satellite mission over land. However, measuring CO<sub>2</sub> concentrations precisely over oceans was identified as a very challenging work. Improvements in hardware technology are unlikely to narrow this gap largely. Thus, developing dedicated algorithms to address CO<sub>2</sub> measurement over oceans by using IPDA LIDAR is necessary.Chengzhi XiangXin MaXingying ZhangGe HanWanchun ZhangBinglong ChenAilin LiangWei GongIEEEarticleCO<sub xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">2</sub> concentrationdata processingintegrated path differential absorption (IPDA) LIDARpreliminary studyOcean engineeringTC1501-1800Geophysics. Cosmic physicsQC801-809ENIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol 14, Pp 11840-11852 (2021)
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data processing
integrated path differential absorption (IPDA) LIDAR
preliminary study
Ocean engineering
TC1501-1800
Geophysics. Cosmic physics
QC801-809
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data processing
integrated path differential absorption (IPDA) LIDAR
preliminary study
Ocean engineering
TC1501-1800
Geophysics. Cosmic physics
QC801-809
Chengzhi Xiang
Xin Ma
Xingying Zhang
Ge Han
Wanchun Zhang
Binglong Chen
Ailin Liang
Wei Gong
Design of Inversion Procedure for the Airborne CO<sub>2</sub>-IPDA LIDAR: A Preliminary Study
description China will launch the atmospheric environment monitoring satellite, which is equipped with a CO<sub>2</sub>-integrated path differential absorption (IPDA) LIDAR, in the coming years. The space-borne IPDA LIDAR is believed to supplement current passive remote sensing techniques in terms of effective observations at nights, as well as in high-latitude regions and heavily polluted areas. Currently, no LIDAR-based satellite is operational for CO<sub>2</sub> detection in orbit despite the fact that Active Sensing of CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions over Nights, Days, and Seasons (ASCENDS) and Advanced Space Carbon and Climate Observation of Planet Earth (A-SCOPE) are dedicated to fill this gap. However, the ESA mission proposal A-SCOPE dedicated for CO<sub>2</sub> measurement was not selected, and ASCENDS from NASA remains in the loop but on low priority. Therefore, it is of great significance to explore the feasibility and effectiveness of this novel technique and to identify potential differences among its CO<sub>2</sub> concentration products and the passive remote sensing technique. In this article, we developed an initial data-processing procedure for an airborne CO<sub>2</sub>-IPDA LIDAR, which is the minified prototype of the forthcoming space-borne LIDAR. We tested the effectiveness of this procedure and evaluated the performance of the minified prototype in a flight test over ocean, urban, and mountainous terrain. The column-weighted xCO<sub>2</sub> (XCO<sub>2</sub>) retrievals obtained by the airborne IPDA LIDAR were considerably more sensitive to the gradients of the dry-air mixing ratio of CO<sub>2</sub> (xCO<sub>2</sub>) than the XCO<sub>2</sub> products of OCO-2 and <italic>in situ</italic> measurements of point xCO<sub>2</sub>. The mean XCO<sub>2</sub> values over the ocean, urban, and mountainous area were 411.07, 425.71, and 417.87 ppm with STDs of 1.93, 0.85, and 0.96 ppm, respectively. We used altitude-dependent xCO<sub>2</sub> obtained by a decline-climb flight to calculate a reference for XCO<sub>2</sub> over the ocean. The difference between XCO<sub>2</sub> obtained using two means was less than 0.5 ppm. Moreover, the actual random error coincided well with the simulated random error, suggesting that our previous performance-evaluation model was reliable. This model predicted that a relative random error of less than 0.3&#x0025; would be very likely for the forthcoming satellite mission over land. However, measuring CO<sub>2</sub> concentrations precisely over oceans was identified as a very challenging work. Improvements in hardware technology are unlikely to narrow this gap largely. Thus, developing dedicated algorithms to address CO<sub>2</sub> measurement over oceans by using IPDA LIDAR is necessary.
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author Chengzhi Xiang
Xin Ma
Xingying Zhang
Ge Han
Wanchun Zhang
Binglong Chen
Ailin Liang
Wei Gong
author_facet Chengzhi Xiang
Xin Ma
Xingying Zhang
Ge Han
Wanchun Zhang
Binglong Chen
Ailin Liang
Wei Gong
author_sort Chengzhi Xiang
title Design of Inversion Procedure for the Airborne CO<sub>2</sub>-IPDA LIDAR: A Preliminary Study
title_short Design of Inversion Procedure for the Airborne CO<sub>2</sub>-IPDA LIDAR: A Preliminary Study
title_full Design of Inversion Procedure for the Airborne CO<sub>2</sub>-IPDA LIDAR: A Preliminary Study
title_fullStr Design of Inversion Procedure for the Airborne CO<sub>2</sub>-IPDA LIDAR: A Preliminary Study
title_full_unstemmed Design of Inversion Procedure for the Airborne CO<sub>2</sub>-IPDA LIDAR: A Preliminary Study
title_sort design of inversion procedure for the airborne co<sub>2</sub>-ipda lidar: a preliminary study
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