---
aliases:
  - context: instrumentID
    lexicon: ceos
    term: 820
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/instrumentsummary.aspx?instrumentID=820
  - context: Instrument
    lexicon: ceos
    term: CALIOP
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/instrumentindex.aspx#C
cited_by: []
contributors:
  - display_name: 'Contributor : National Aeronautics and Space Administration '
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/contributor/3713.yaml
    id: 3713
    organization:
      country_code: US
      display_name: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
      identifier: national-aeronautics-space-administration
      name: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
      organization_type_identifier: federal
      type: organization
      url: http://www.nasa.gov
    organization_uri: /organization/national-aeronautics-space-administration
    person: {}
    person_id: ~
    person_uri: ~
    role_type_identifier: contributor
    uri: /contributor/3713
description: Atmospheric lidar
description_attribution: ~
display_name: cloud-aerosol-lidar-with-orthogonal-polarization
files: []
href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/instrument/cloud-aerosol-lidar-with-orthogonal-polarization.yaml
identifier: cloud-aerosol-lidar-with-orthogonal-polarization
name: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization
parents: []
platforms:
  - description: 'CALIPSO, alias PICASSO-CENA (Pathfinder Instruments for Cloud and Aerosol Spaceborne Observations / Climatologie Etendue des Nuages et des Aerosols), and alias ESSP-3 (Earth System Science Pathfinder-3), is a satellite science mission, a collaborative NASA/CNES project in the ESSP (Earth System Science Pathfinder) program of NASA. Other project partners (algorithm development, etc.) are Hampton University in Hampton, VA, and IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace), Jussieu, France.'
    description_attribution: 'CALIPSO, alias PICASSO-CENA (Pathfinder Instruments for Cloud and Aerosol Spaceborne Observations / Climatologie Etendue des Nuages et des Aerosols), and alias ESSP-3 (Earth System Science Pathfinder-3), is a satellite science mission, a collaborative NASA/CNES project in the ESSP (Earth System Science Pathfinder) program of NASA. Other project partners (algorithm development, etc.) are Hampton University in Hampton, VA, and IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace), Jussieu, France.'
    identifier: cloud-aerosol-lidar-and-infrared-pathfinder-satellite-observations
    name: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations
    uri: /platform/cloud-aerosol-lidar-and-infrared-pathfinder-satellite-observations
references: []
type: instrument
uri: /instrument/cloud-aerosol-lidar-with-orthogonal-polarization