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Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

2006

Animal Feeding Operations

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Characterization Of Particulate Emission From Animal Feeding Operations With Three-Wavelength Lidar Using Simultaneous In-Situ Point Measurements As Calibration Reference Sources, Vladimir V. Zavyalov, Gail E. Bingham, Thomas D. Wilkerson, Jason Swasey, Christian Marchant, Christopher Rogers, Randy Martin, Phil Silva, Vishal Doshi Jun 2006

Characterization Of Particulate Emission From Animal Feeding Operations With Three-Wavelength Lidar Using Simultaneous In-Situ Point Measurements As Calibration Reference Sources, Vladimir V. Zavyalov, Gail E. Bingham, Thomas D. Wilkerson, Jason Swasey, Christian Marchant, Christopher Rogers, Randy Martin, Phil Silva, Vishal Doshi

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Lidar (LIght Detection And Ranging) provides the means to quantitatively evaluate the spatial and temporal variability of particulate emissions from agricultural activities, including animal feeding operations. A three-wavelength portable scanning Lidar system built at the Space Dynamic Laboratory (SDL) is used to extract optical properties of the particulate matter from the return Lidar signal and to convert these optical properties to physical parameters including the spatial distribution of particulate concentration around the agricultural facility and its temporal variations. The inversion algorithm developed to retrieve physical parameters of the particulate matter takes advantage of measurements taken simultaneously at three different wavelengths …