HARLIE

Holographic Airborne Rotating Lidar Instrument Experiment

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Patents

" Kinetic Analysis of Conically Scanned Environmental Properties," T.D. Wilkerson, J.A. Sanders and Ionio Q. Andrus,  filed March 15, 2001, awarded March 18, 2003.U.S. Patent No.6,535,158,

" Methods and Systems for Collecting Data from Multiple Fields of View," NASA Case No. GSC 14,240-1, Geary K. Schwemmer, filed June 28, 2000, Awarded Nov. 12, 2002.  #US 6,479,808 B1. 
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" Holographic Transmission Beam Director," T.D. Wilkerson and J.A. McKay, U.S. Patent No. 5,872,621, filed Sept 18, 1998, awarded Feb. 16, 1999.

" Lidar Atmospheric Wind Detector," T.D. Wilkerson and J.A. McKay, U.S. Patent No. 5,796,471, filed Sept. 18, 1996, awarded Aug. 18, 1998.

" Conically Scanned Holographic Lidar Telescope," NASA Case No. GSC 13,462-1, Geary K. Schwemmer, U.S. Patent No. 5,255,065, filed March 6, 1992, awarded Oct 19, 1993. 
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" Lidar Atmospheric Wind Detector," T.D. Wilkerson and J.A. McKay, U.S. Patent No. 5,796,471, filed Sept. 18, 1996, awarded Aug. 18, 1998.

Refereed Publications

Schwemmer, Geary K., Richard D. Rallison, Thomas D. Wilkerson, David V. Guerra, "Holographic Optical Elements as Scanning Lidar Telescopes," Lasers and Optics in Engineering, Vol. 44, Issue 9, Sept. 2006, pp. 881-902. 

Belay Demoz, Cyrille Flamant, David Miller, Keith Evans, Frédéric Fabry, Paolo Di Girolamo, David Whiteman1, Bart Geerts, Tammy Weckwerth, William Brown, Geary Schwemmer, Bruce Gentry, Wayne Feltz, Zhien Wang, "The Dryline on 22 May 2002 During IHOP_2002: Convective Scale Measurements at the Profiling Site, Part-I," Monthly Weather Review, 134, 294-310 (January 2006).

Berkoff, T. A., H. Plotkin, D. N. Whiteman, G. Schwemmer, R. Rallison, L. Ramos-Izquierdo, “Holographic Optical Element Raman Lidar,” Advances in Laser Remote Sensing, Alain Dabas, Claude Loth and Jacques Pelon, Editors, pp. 77-80, Ecole Polytechnique, publisher, France, 2001.

Schwemmer, Geary K., Wilkerson, Thomas D., Sanders,  Jason A., Guerra, David V., Miller, David O., Moody, Stephen E.; “Ground Based Operational Testing of Holographic Scanning Lidars,” Advances in Laser Remote Sensing, Alain Dabas, Claude Loth and Jacques Pelon, Editors, pp. 69-72, Ecole Polytechnique, publisher, France, 2001.

Guerra, D.V., Schwemmer, G.K., and  Wilkerson, T.D.; "Holographic Optical Telescope and Scanner (HOTS) for lidar applications", SPIE's International Technical Group Newsletter, Vol 11, No. 1, p 5, June 2000.  Download pdf file

Berkoff, T.A., D.N. Whiteman, R.D. Rallison, G.K. Schwemmer, L. Ramos-Izquierido and H. Plotkin, 2000: "Remote Detection of Raman Scattering by use of a Holograpic Optical Element as a Dispersive Telescope", Optics Letters, 25, No. 6, pp. 1201-1203, 2000. Download pdf file

Guerra, D., G. Schwemmer, A. Wooten, S. Chaudhuri, T. Wilkerson, 1999: "Prototype Holographic Atmospheric Scanner for Environmental Remote Sensing", Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, No. D18, pp. 22,287 - 22,292, 1999.  Download pdf file

Conference Publications

 

“G. Schwemmer, D. O. Miller, T. D. Wilkerson,“HARLIE aerosol and cloud structure and wind observations during HARGLO and IHOP,”  6th International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling: Needs and Technologies, Leipzig, Germany, 1420 September 2003

C. Flamant, S. Koch, T. Weckwerth, J. Wilson, D. Parsons, B. Demoz, B. Gentry, D. Whiteman, G. Schwemmer, F. Fabry, W. Feltz, M. Pagowski, P. Di Girolamo,“The life cycle of a bore event over the US Southern Great Plains during IHOP 2002,”  6th International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling: Needs and Technologies, Leipzig, Germany, 1420 September 2003

B. Demoz, D. Miller, K. Evans, D. Whiteman, P. Di Girolamo, G. Schwemmer, B. Gentry, D. Starr, Z. Wang,“Moisture, wind, and boundary layer evolution during a dryline in IHOP 2002: 22 May 2002,”  6th International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling: Needs and Technologies, Leipzig, Germany, 1420 September 2003

Steven E. Koch, Mariusz Pagowski, Frederic Fabry, Wayne Feltz, Geary Schwemmer, Bart Geerts, Belay Demoz, Bruce Gentry, David Parsons, Tammy Weckwerth, and James Wilson,“Structure and dynamics of a dual bore event during IHOP as revealed by remote sensing and numerical simulation,”  6th International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling: Needs and Technologies, Leipzig, Germany, 1420 September 2003

Cyrille N. Flamant, Steven E Koch, Frédéric Fabry, Tammy M. Weckwerth, James Wilson, David Parsons, Wayne F. Feltz, Belay B. Demoz, Bruce Gentry, Geary Schwemmer, and Mariusz Pagowski:  "The Life Cycle of a Bore Event over the US Southern Great Plains during IHOP_2002," AMS 10th Conference on Mesoscale Processes, 2327. June 2003, Portland, Oregon.

Bruce Gentry, Geary Schwemmer, Matt McGill and Tom Wilkerson: “Prospects for An Airborne Technology Demonstration of the Molecular Direct Detection Component of a Hybrid Doppler Lidar System,”,  Presentation to the Working Group on Spaced-based Lidar Winds, Oxnard, CA, 17-18 February 2003.

Geary.Schwemmer, Bruce Gentry and Tom Wilkerson, “HARGLO-3:  Wind Intercomparisons during IHOP”,  Presentation to the Working Group on Spaced-based Lidar Winds, Oxnard, CA, 17-18 February 2003.


Geary Schwemmer, Bruce Gentry and Tom Wilkerson:
“HARGLO-2 Wind Intercomparisons”, Presentation to the Working Group on Spaced-based Lidar Winds, Oxnard, CA, 17-18 February 2003.


Geary Schwemmer, Sangwoo Lee and Richard Rallison: “Ultraviolet and Multiplexed HOEs:  Current Performance and Future Prospects”,  Presentation to the Working Group on Spaced-based Lidar Winds, Oxnard, CA, 17-18 February 2003.


Belay Demoz, Keith Evans, Paolo Di Girolamo, Zhein Wang, David Whiteman, Geary Schwemmer, Bruce Gentry, David Miller and Stephen P Palm: "Lidar Measuremetns Of Wind, Moisture And Boundary Layer Evoloution In A Dryline During Ihop2002.", AMS Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA., Feb. 2003. 
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Thomas D. Wilkerson, Geary K. Schwemmer, and Bruce M. Gentry: "Lidar Profiling of Aerosols, Clouds, and Winds by Doppler and Non-Doppler Methods",  AMOS Conference, Maui, HI, October 2002. 
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David Miller, Geary Schwemmer, Sangwoo Lee and Tom Wilkerson: "Overview of HARLIE Measurement Capabilities",  presentation to the Workshop on New Optical Remote Sensing Techniques For Air Quality Compliance And Air Toxics Detection, USEPA, Research Triangle Park, NC, 29-31 July 2002.


Geary K. Schwemmer, Thomas D. Wilkerson, David O. Miller, Ionio Andrus, Bruce Gentry, Cameron Egbert, Mark Anderson and Sangwoo Lee: "HARLIE Wind Profile Measurements During HARGLO-2,"   Conway, NH, 15-18 July 2002.

Geary K. Schwemmer, Thomas D. Wilkerson, David O. Miller, Ionio Andrus, Cameron Egbert, Mark Anderson and  Sangwoo Lee:  "HARLIE 3-D Aerosol Backscatter and Wind Profile Measurements During Recent Field Experiments",  21st International Laser Radar Conference, pp. 833-836, Quebec City, Canada, 8-12 July 2002.
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David O. Miller, Geary K. Schwemmer and Sonia M. F. Garcia: "Preliminary Measurements of Aerosol Backscatter/Extinction Ratios using HARLIE during HARGLO-2",  21st International Laser Radar Conference, pp. 595-597, Quebec City, Canada, 8-12 July 2002.

Belay Demoz, Keith Evans, David Whiteman, Geary Schwemmer, David Miller and Paolo DiGirolamo: "Lidar Observations of a Bore-Front Case: Water Vapor Mixing Ratio and Aerosol Profiles", 21
st International Laser Radar Conference, pp. 527-530, Quebec City, Canada, 8-12 July 2002.


Stephen P. Palm, David O. Miller, Geary K. Schwemmer, Belay Demoz, and Keith Evans: "Observed Correlation between Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer Integrated Backscatter and Surface Latent Heat Flux", 21
st International Laser Radar Conference, pp. 219-222, Quebec City, Canada, 8-12 July 2002.


Sangwoo Lee, David Miller and  Geary Schwemmer: "Background Noise Reduction with a Fabry-Perot Etalon Filter in the HARLIE System", 21
st International Laser Radar Conference, pp. 113-116, Quebec City, Canada, 8-12 July 2002.  Download pdf file  

Geary Schwemmer, Bruce Gentry, David Miller, Huailin Chen, Sangwoo Lee, Thomas Wilkerson, Ionio Andrus, Cameron Egbert and Mark Anderson, "HARGLO: Intercomparisons of HARLIE and GLOW Lidar Wind Measurements," Presentation to the Working Group on Spaced-based Lidar Winds, Key West, Florida, 23-25 Jan 2002.


Belay Demoz, David Miller, Eric Aligo, and Geary Schwemmer: "Application Of Harlie Measurements In Mesoscale Studies: Measurements Of Aerosol Backscatter And Winds", Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, American Meteorological Society, pp. 68-70, Orlando, FL, 14-17 Jan 2002.

T. D. Wilkerson, I. Q. Andrus, G. K. Schwemmer and D. O. Miller: “Horizontal Wind Measurements using the HARLIE Holographic Lidar”, Proceedings of SPIE Vol.4484 Optical Remote Sensing for Industry and Environment Monitoring II, San Diego, California, 30-31 July 2001, pp. 64-73.

G. K. Schwemmer, D. O. Miller, T. D. Wilkerson and I. Q. Andrus: "Time Resolved 3-D mapping of atmospheric aerosols and clouds during the recent ARM Water Vapor IOP”, Proceedings of SPIE Vol.4484 Optical Remote Sensing for Industry and Environment Monitoring II, San Diego, California, 30-31 July 2.001, pp. 58-63  Download pdf file.

Geary Schwemmer, David Miller, Thomas Wilkerson, Ionio Andrus, Jason Sanders and David Guerra:  “Harlie Winds (Horizontal Wind Measurements Using The Harlie Holographic Lidar)” , Presentation to the Working Group on Spaced-based Lidar Winds, Frisco, Colorado, 25-27 July 2001.

Schwemmer, Geary, David O. Miller, Thomas D. Wilkerson, Ionio Andrus and David V. Guerra, 2001: "Large Aperture Scanning based on Holographic Elements",  International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Sydney, Australia, July 9-13, 2001. Download pdf file.  

Wilkerson, Thomas D.,  Jason A. Sanders, Ionio Q. Andrus, Geary K. Schwemmer, David O. Miller, David Guerra, Jeffrey Schnick and Stephen E. Moody, 2000: "The HOLO Series: Critical Ground Based Demostrations of Holographic Scanning Lidars", SPIE's Lidar Remote Sensing for Industry and Environment Monitoring, Sendai, Japan, October 9-12, 2000.  Download pdf file. 

Schwemmer, G., T. Wilkerson, J. Saunders, D. Guerra, D. Miller and S. Moody, 2000: "Ground Based Operational Testing of Holographic Scanning Lidars: The HOLO Experiments", Proceedings of the 20th International Radar Conferance, July 10-14, 2000.  Download pdf file

Saunders, J., T. Wilkerson, G. Schwemmer, D. Miller, D. Guerra and S. Moody, 2000: "Comparisons of Two Lidar Methods of Wind Measurements by Cloud Tracking", Proceedings of the 20th International Laser Radar Conference, July 10-14, 2000.

Miller, D., G. Schwemmer, J. Saunders, T. Wilkerson, D. Guerra and S. Moody, 2000: "Observations of Shear Induced Turbelence using HARLIE", Proceedings of the 20th International Laser Radar Conference, July 10-14, 2000.  Download pdf file

Schwemmer, G.K., 1998b: "Design of an Airborne Scanning Lidar using a Holographic Optical Element", OSA 1998 Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, October 1998.

Schwemmer, G., T. Wilkerson and D. Guerra, 1998: "Compact Scanning Lidar Systems Using Holographic Optics", SPIE Conf. Optical Remote Sensing for Industry and Environmental Monitoring, Bejing, China, September 14-17, 1998.

Schwemmer, G.K., 1998a: "Holographic Airborne Rotating Lidar Instrument Eperiment", 19th International Laser Radar Conference, Annapolis, Maryland, July 6-10, 1998, NASA/CP-1998-207671/PT2, pp. 623-626.  Download pdf file

Guerra, D. V., A.D. Wooten, S.S. Chaudhuri and G.K. Schwemmer, 1998: "Operation of the Prototype Holographic Atmospheric Scanner for Environmental Remote Sensing (PHASERS)", 19th International Laser Radar Conference, Annapolis, Maryland, July 6-10, 1998, NASA/CP-1998-207671/PT2, pp. 879-882.

Schwemmer, G.K., D.B. Coyle and D.V. Guerra, 1995: "Holographic, Solid State Atmospheric Lidar", 'Proceedings of the International Conference on LASERS '95', December 4-8, 1995, Charleston, SC, 714-717.

Schwemmer, Geary K. and Thomas Wilkerson, 1994: "Development of a Holographic Telescope for Optical Remote Sensing", Proceedings, SPIE, Vol. 2270, pp. 40-47.

Schwemmer, Geary K. and Thomas D. Wilkerson, 1992b: "Scanning Holographic Lidar Telescope", Proceedings International Conference on Lasers '92', Houston, Texas, December 7-10, 1992, STS Press, McLean, VA, pp. 562-565.

Schwemmer, Geary K. and Thomas D. Wilkerson, 1992a: "Conically Scanned Lidar Telescope Using Holographic Optical Elements", 16th International Laser Radar Conference, NASA Conference Publication 3158, pp. 521-524.

Schwemmer, Geary K. and Thomas D. Wilkerson, 1991: "Holographic Optical Elements as Conically Scanned Lidar Telescopes", Technical Digest on Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., Vol. 18, pp. 310-312. 

Reports

"NASA lidar uses HOEs for lightweight scanning", Geary Schwemmer, David Miller, Thomas Wilkerson, David Guerra, and Richard Rallison, Laser Focus World, 38, No. 6, pp. 141

“Shared-Aperture Multiplexed Holographic Scanning Telescopes”, Geary Karl Schwemmer, Photonics Tech Briefs, Vol. 25. No. 7, p. 18a, July 2001.

"Shared Aperture Multiplexed Holographic Scanning Telescopes", NASA Tech Briefs, GSC-14240.   Download pdf file   

 

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