Raymetrics has been in operation since 2002 and is probably the first atmospheric LIDAR company in the world. Over the last 16 years they have developed a range of highly customizable products suitable for academic, commercial and operational uses.
The polarimetric ground-based lidar system Wall-E is completed in collaboration with Raymetrics and NOA in the framework of the ERC Consolidator grant D-TECT. The objective of the system is to provide the upcoming ESA missions of Aeolus (the first satellite mission to acquire profiles of Earth’s wind on a global scale) and later also EarthCARE (Earth Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation Explorer), with a well characterized, flexible, mobile reference ground-based lidar system, tailored to the specifics of ALADIN (a sophisticated Doppler Wind Lidar operating in the ultraviolet region of the spectrum (355nm) implemented in a transceiver configuration and tilted 35° from nadir).
