Near-infrared, visible and ultraviolet LIDAR echo emulator

NIR-VIS-UV LEE: the heart of HOLDON project

In the European H2020 project called HOLDON (HgCdte APD Optimization for Lidar Detection Of greeNhouse gas), a team of 7 partners, leaders in the different fields related to Lidar missions, collaborate to achieve a principal objective: Develop a new detection chain that will improve the performance of the Lidars on large platforms and/or reduce the Lidar payload to be integrated into the future micro and mini-satellites.

Within HOLDON, ALTER (one of the project partners) developed a system called Near-infrared, visible and ultraviolet (NIR-VIS-UV) lidar echo emulator (LEE) (NIR-VIS-UV LEE), a compact and portable device that offers all the necessary requirements for exhaustive characterization of the lidar detection chains.