A lot of nice pictures can be found here. They demonstrate that it is really fun to work in the lidar business…

History

Lidar under construction (July 1994)
Lidar under construction (July 1994)

Inauguration Ceremony in Maisach (July 1995)
Inauguration Ceremony in Maisach (July 1995)

The old labs at Barbarastraße (München, until 1997)
The old labs at Barbarastraße (München, until 1997)

The new trailer at Barbarastraße (1996)
The new trailer at Barbarastraße (1996)

Hardware


Lidar (state of 1995)


The mobile trailer (state of 1999)


MULIS (state of 2002)


The portable aerosol lidar POLIS (state of 2002)


No hardware without software (state of 2002)


Laboratory in Maisach (summer 2007)


Laboratory in Maisach (summer 2007)

Field Experiments


ELITE: Site in Elpersbüttel (September 1994)


ELITE: First „official“ lidar signal (September 1994)


BayFORKLIM: Measurement site at Maisach (1995)


Lidar intercomparison in Garmisch-Partenkirchen at IFU (October 1995)


same event


same event


ACE-2: Transport to Lisboa, Portugal (June 1997)


ACE-2: R/V Vodyanitzky in Lisboa (June 1997)


ACE-2: Putting the lidar on board of R/V Vodyanitzky [real adventure] (June 1997)


ACE-2: Lidar onboard R/V Vodyanitzky in Lisboa (June 1997)


ACE-2: Lidar onboard R/V Vodyanitzky on open sea (July 1997)


LACE: Trailer in Lindenberg (June 1998)


LACE: Shooting the aerosols (June 1998)


LACE: Meinhard working hard (June 1998)


LACE: Volker working hard (June 1998)


LACE: Lidars at night (July 1998)


HAFEX: Lidar Measurements at Hohenpeißenberg (May 1999)


AFS: On tour in Upper Bavaria (October 1999)


AFS: Routine measurements from the platform on the roof of the institute (December 1999)


SLICE: Lidar in Athens (October 2000)


SLICE: Lidar in Lecce (October 2000)


SLICE: Volker aligning the system (October 2000)

SLICE: Ivan working (October 2000)


SLICE: Lidar in Potenza (October 2000)


SLICE: Lidar in L'Aquila (October 2000)


Vertikator: site (July 2002)


Vertikator: Lidargroup with guest (July 2002)


Vertikator: Checking data (July 2002)


Vertikator: lidar trailer (July 2002)


CHRIS/PROBA Validation: Birgit preparing measurements (July 2002)


CHRIS/PROBA Validation: POLIS in action (July 2002)


POLIS: first test flights (March 2003)


ICAROS-NET: POLIS integration in van (May 2003)


POCAME: POLIS implementation in the CESSNA (June 2004)


AMMA: Supersite at Banizoumbou (January 2006)


AMMA: POLIS at Banizoumbou (January 2006)


SAMUM I: Start from Munich (May 2006)


SAMUM I: MULIS and SSARA in Ouarzazate (May 2006)


SAMUM I: Measurement site of POLIS at Ouarzazate (May 2006)


SAMUM I: POLIS in hangar at Ouarzazate (May 2006)


SAMUM I: POLIS operation (May 2006)


SAMUM I: POLIS in Zagora (May 2006)


ADM-Aeolus 2. Ground Truth Campaign (July 2007): Team


ADM-Aeolus 2. Ground Truth Campaign (July 2007): MULIS


UFK-Project: POLIS at Zugspitze (February 2009)


UFK-Project: POLIS measurements at Zugspitze (February 2009)


UFK-Project: POLIS at Zugspitze: the shooting (February 2009)


UFK-Project: the measurement site at UFS-Zugspitze (February 2009)

Conferences/Exhibitions


ILRC'17 in Sendai (June 1994)


ILRC'19 in Annapolis (June 1998)


ILRC'21 in Quebec (July 2002)


ILRC'21 in Quebec


ILRC'22 in Matera (July 2004)


ILRC'22 in Matera


ILRC'24 in Boulder (June 2008)


ILRC'24 in Boulder


ILRC'24 in Boulder


ILRC'24 in Boulder


ILRC'24 in Boulder


ILRC'24 in Boulder


DACH'04 in Karlsruhe (September 2004)


EGU 2005 in Vienna (April 2005)


EGU 2005: EARLINET meeting in Vienna (April 2005)


EARLINET-ASOS: Kickoff-Meeting on March 21, 2006


EARLINET-ASOS: Kickoff-Meeting: Participants


EARLINET-ASOS: Kickoff-Meeting: The ladies who supported us

Munich Days of Science (October 2002)

Miscellaneous


Working group meeting at the „Augustiner Biergarten“ (1997)


Even on X-mas…(December 1999)


Guests from China (July 2002)


Guest from Canada (September 2002)


Guest from Canada (September 2002)


Spontaneous after-work-meeting (2008)


Working group meeting at the „Augustiner Biergarten“ (2008)


Working group meeting at the „Oktoberfest“ (2008)