The IV Workshop on Lidar Measurements in Latin
America was held in Ilha Bela, São Paulo, Brazil in
2007. This workshop was another step in the development
of the Latin American lidar community and in the implantation of
a lidar network in the region. In previous workshops steps were
taken towards the formation of a lidar network with the participation
of around 20 researchers and students from the area. Financial
support for this workshop come from both local and international
sources, such as the International Centre for Theoretical Physics
(ICTP), in Trieste, Italy, the Inter-American Agency for Global
Change Research (IAI), the Centro Latino-Americano de Física
CLAF, the Optical Society of America (OSA) and the European Space
Agency (ESA). A
Report was writed
with the main achievement about this workshop, as well as, the
new challenges for next workshops.
In the frame of this workshop was recognized the
Dr. Barclay Robert Clemesha by the Lifetime
Achievement, who, since the lidar technique beginning, began his
work in this theme.
Some important suggestions was made in the course
of the discussion session, such as, the organization
of a Lidar Summer School in Latin America. Other suggestion was
to add two more pages to the existing WLMLA
site. One page will contain links to the most relevant lidar
literature. The other will have
links to the regional and international opportunities for graduate
and undergraduate fellowships in
the area of lidar. The attendees agree that it will be crucial
for the effectiveness of such pages
that anyone with relevant information should contribute.
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| Dr. Eduardo Landulfo (Chair) |
IPEN, Brazil. |
| Dr. Barclay Clemesha (Co-Chair) |
INPE, Brazil. |
| Dr. Dale Simonich |
INPE, Brazil. |
| Dr. Alexandre Pimenta |
INPE, Brazil. |
| Dr. Paulo Batista |
INPE, Brazil. |
| Dra. Maria P. Martins
Pereira Jorge |
INPE, Brazil. |
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| Dr. Juan C.
Antuña (Chair) |
CLS-INSMET, Cuba. |
| Dr. Eduardo Landulfo (Co-Chair) |
IPEN, Brazil. |
| Dr. Barclay Clemesha |
INPE, Brazil. |
| Dr. Errico Armadillo |
ESA. |
| Dr. Marcos Andrade |
UMSA, Bolivia. |
| Dr. Angel de Frutos |
Universidad de Valladolid, España. |
| Dr. Eduardo Quel |
CEILAP, Argentina. |
| Dr. Dave N. Whiteman |
GSFC-NASA, USA. |
| Dr. Alvaro Bastidas |
Universidad Nacional Sede Medellín, Colombia. |
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Lidar technologies and methods. |
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Fundamental measurements. |
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Process studies and applications using lidar data. |
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Networking. |
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Space programs. |
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