European manufacturer of Lidars for Environmental Observations Laurent Sauvage, Chief scientist, september 2010, WMO, Geneva
One atmosphere, many hazards Volcano- logy Atmospheric Pollution Climate Change / Atmospheric research Airport Safety Wind Farming Meteorology Real time atmospheric remote observations Aerosol lidars Wind lidars
Corporate ID Established people Optoelectronics / Atmospheric Physicists / Software engineers Partnerships with CEA/LSCE, IPSL, ONERA 95% sales non domestic Turnover : ’08-4.7M€, ‘09- 7M€,’10-??M€
4 Global Network 150 lidars units deployed
Polarisation Lidar for Aerosol Research and advisory system (N2 Raman option)
Potential contribution to GALION Hdf Format, compatible with MPLNET format. We promote the continuous vertical monitoring and give new customers a contact to main research networks (ex. Juëlich, RISOE, ETZH in Europe, Hongkong, NPL India and Indoniesan Met bureau for 7’seas ) Participate to QA effort for the ALS Specific support for some stations (but not permanent, will need extra funding) Providing ezsunphotometer coupling software for a better calibration 6 NOT GOOD FOR CLIMATE MONITORING Chibolton obs., univ. Reading GOOD FOR CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS 20 potential sites Some co-located with sunphotometers Air quality monitoring in a metro station
Participation to inter-comparison campaign data sample during LICL2009
WindCube family – Jan m 20 m 2500 m 50m or 20m WindCube200 50m or 20m 10 s of accumulation time 5000 m WindCube7WindCube70 8U casing 55 cm 10U casing 65 cm 10 s of accumulation time 1s of accumulation time WindCube200S
9 WindCube TM External 100m Data recorded Feb in Germany – Deutsche WindGuard More information available on WindGuard Full evaluation report
Volcanic ash plume detection with WINDCUBE AVRIL ALTITUDE (km)
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