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The WLMLA is a biannual meeting, gathering Latin American researchers and students to promote local communication and international cooperation between members of the Latin-American Lidar Network (LALINET) and the international scientific community. A special aim of all workshops is to strengthen our community by sharing knowledge and planning future projects together. The event is a great opportunity for lidar and environmental companies to contact potential clients in Latin America, especially researchers working on lidar, radiometry, and other remote sensing techniques for atmospheric aerosols, gases and clouds.

The particular goals of the Workshop are to promote communication and cooperation between scientific members of the LIDAR community in Latin America, and to plan future LIDAR research projects to strength the Latin-American Lidar Network (LALINET). The basic school on lidar has become a good chance for students of Latin America over the past workshops. This event is also a great opportunity for lidar and environmental companies to contact potential clients in Latin American lidar working groups.

Students and Researchers working on lidar and related techniques are invited to stay tuned for the updates.

School on Lidars

The School on Lidars happens just before our workshops, and is devoted to train future scientists and young researchers in Latin America on laser remote sensing and related techniques. Over 300 students attended our schools, a great opportunity for students from Latin-American countries, many of which are now pursuing they career abroad, or have become established researchers. Our school will be held during two first day of the XII WLMLA on 7th and 8th of April, the following topics are proposed:

Lidar Processing Pipeline, theory and hands-on practices

Stratospheric Aerosol processing

GRASP (Generalized Retieval of Aerosol and Surface Properties) theory and Hands-on practices

Scientific Sessions

The last WLMLA edition had 6 Scientific Session with oral and poster presentations covering different aspects of Lidar and remote sensing applications. The sessions are:

Remote sensing of tropospheric aerosols

Remote sensing of gases

Remote sensing of stratospheric aerosols

Remote sensing of clouds

Lidar networks

Satellite remote sensing

Publishing Standards

The Organizing Committee of the XI WLMLA would like to invite you to submit your scientific contribution to our meeting.

The XII WLMLA will have 6 sessions with oral presentations and 1 poster session covering different aspects of Lidar and remote sensing applications. The sessions are:

Remote sensing of tropospheric aerosols

Measurements of atmospheric gases and particles properties

Remote sensing of stratospheric aerosols

Remote sensing of clouds

Satellite remote sensing

Lidar Network

In addition to the topics listed above, the report of the activities from the Latin American teams dedicated to the observation of the atmosphere with active and/or passive remote sensing themes are welcome. The participation in this Workshop is not restricted to those with active Lidar instruments. On the contrary, the contribution from researchers and students in the more general field of Atmospheric Optics and Remote Sensing is of great interest for the objectives of this Workshop. Extended abstracts should be sent after the XII WLMLA, we will announce this during Workshop.

After you have prepared your abstract (with around 2000 letters), please submit it using this form before 15th January 2024:

Contact

Eduardo Landulfo: landulfo@gmail.com

Fábio juliano da Silva Lopes: fabiolopes@alumni.usp.br

Boris Barja: bbarja@gmail.com

JuanCarlos Antuña Merrero: jcam45@gmail.com

Committees

Organizing Committee

Dr. Eduardo Landulfo, IPEN, Brazil. (Chair Local and International)

Dr. Fábio Juliano da Silva Lopes, UNIFESP, Brazil.

Dr. Maria Paulete Martins Pereira, INPE, Brazil.

Dr. Vânia Fárima Adrioli, INPE, Brazil.

Dr. Henrique de Melo Jorge Barbosa, UMBC/IF-USP, USA/Brazil.

Dr. Gregori Arruda Moreira, IFSP, Brazil.

Dr. Boris Barja, LIA, UMAG-Chile.

Scientific Committee

Dr. Eduardo Landulfo, IPEN, Brazil (Chair)

Hassan Bencheriff, Univ. Reunion, France.

Dr. Juan Luis Guerrero Rascado, Universidad de Granada, Spain.

Dr. Lucas Alados Arboledas, Universidad de Granada, Spain.

Dr. Vassilis Amiridis, NOA, Greece.

Dr. Eleni Marinou, NOA, Greece.

Dr. Juan Carlos Antuña-Marrero, Universidad de Vigo, Spain.

Dr. Igor Veselovskii, PIC, Russia.

Dr. Pol Ribes Pleguezuelo, ESA-EU

Dr. Antonieta Silva, UFRO-Chile.

Dr. Eliam Wolfram, SMN, Argentina.

Dr. Boris Barja, LIA, UMAG-Chile.

Dr. Elena Montilla, EAFIT, Colombia.

Dr. Pol Ribes Pleguezuelo, ESA-EU

Dr. Errico Armandillo, ESA-EU (Consultant)

Dr. Pablo Ristori, CITEDEF, Argentina.

Sponsors

CAPES (in Portuguese, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de nivel Superior) is a Brazilian agency under the authority of the Ministry of Education that performs three main activities:

The evaluation of Brazilian graduate programs,
The payment of scholarships and grants to researchers and especially to master’s and doctoral students, and the maintenance of a Journal Portal.
The maintenance of a Periodicals Portal that includes more than 12,000 titles, most of them in English.

FAPESP is a public institution with the mission of supporting research and scientific and technological development in the state of São Paulo, based on the selection of research projects in all areas of knowledge, presented by researchers linked to higher education and research institutions in São Paulo, based on peer review, a methodology that uses opinions issued by Brazilian and foreign researchers not linked to the Foundation. In 2021, the Foundation disbursed R$1.86 billion to support scientific and technological research projects.

FAPESP support the organization of the XII WLMLA by the Grant Number 2024/01865-0.

Raymetrics is a technology and software company with global presence. The company design and manufacture atmospheric LIDAR solutions. Their proprietary technology based on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (MLR) algorithms allow us to address complex environmental challenges.

Licel Company was founded in 1994 by Dr. Bernhard Stein and Bernd Mielke. Since 1996 the company is located in Berlin.The areas of expertise are:

Transient recorder for Lidar-Systems

Transient recorder for Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (TDLAS)

Optical detectors

Customer specific LabView Software

Cimel is a French manufacturer of meteorological and atmospheric observation systems for all “climate – sensitive” activities since more than 50 years.

Our core mission is to be the link between Scientific Research Community and the industrial world to develop innovative technologies and operational solutions. This way, we are able to answer the needs of new potential markets and various related applications.

Some Materials:

SCINK is a Brazilian company founded to bring innovation to the carbon market. In addition to providing conventional services related to emission inventories, we have developed solutions aimed at estimating emissions and carbon sequestration based on high-resolution measurements and modeling, which consist of a new multi-purpose technology aimed at increasing the reliability and accuracy of projects focused on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and Designation of Origin (DO).

WORKSHOP ON LIDAR MEASUREMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA