ASCENDS: Airborne CO2 LAS Retrieval, Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2014
CO2 Sounder instrument photographs. a) The aircraft rack with the new seed laser subsystem. b) The aircraft racks containing the laser power amplifiers and the lidar's detector subsystem. c) The lidar's transmitter and receiver telescope assembly, which is positioned over the nadir window assembly in the aircraft fuselage. The optical pulses from the fiber amplifiers, and the received optical signals are coupled via fiber optics. d) The instrument operator's console, with the control computer screens folded away (Abshire et al., 2018).