NOAA-CREST Hosts the 27th International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC)

July 5-10, 2015

The 27th International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC) will take place in New York City and will be hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology (CREST) Center and the City College of the City University of New York.

The conference venue is the historic Great Hall in the Shepard Hall of the City College of New York campus. The City College of New York is located in the northern part of the Manhattan Island at 138th Street and Convent Ave.

For nearly half a century, ILRC meetings have been the recognized international venue for reporting cutting edge research on Lidar techniques, technologies and applications (Atmosphere, Oceans, Land, etc.). ILRC continues to play an important role for exchanging ideas, fostering collaborations, and stimulating new and novel research directions. ILRC continues its commitment to foster growth of students and young scientists, and this year, through generous support of agencies and contributors, we have extended travel support to 43 student and scientists from 18 countries.

ILRC 27 has a full program that runs from Sunday July 5th to Friday July 10th; with ILRC Summer School on Sunday, and a technical program of 92 oral presentations in 14 sessions and over 200 poster presentation in 3 poster sessions. There presentations comprehensively cover the field of Lidar and Lidar application in diverse topical areas including: Spaceborne Lidar Missions, Advances in LIDAR Technologies and Techniques, Aerosol Observations and Retrievals, Lidar Cloud Studies, Remote Sensing of Volcanic Ash, Lidar For Trace Gas Monitoring, Lidar Applications to Boundary Layer Studies, Lidar Applications to Winds and Turbulence, Middle and Upper Atmospheric Lidar, Lidar Networks, Combining Lidar and Other Observations, and Marine and Terrestrial Lidar.