The scope of organizing the Advanced Course on “Spaceborne LIDAR” is to provide an in depth expert knowledge on designing, developing and qualifying the technologies and subsystems to build a Spaceborne LIDAR. The course will be cover End-to-End aspects of lidar system definition, design, development and test. Well-known Lidar professionals from ESA and from European Industries/ Institutes will provide the lectures during a full week.

A list of topics addressed at this course are:

• Lidar Introduction
• Lidar-Atmosphere Interactions
• Lidar system Requirement Definition
• Conceptual Design
• Transmitter Design
• Receiver Chain design
• Focal Plane Detection
• Thermo-mechanical design
• Electrical and Power Design
• Lidar data Acquisition and Processing
• Instrument Control
• Space environment, component qualification, testing and validation