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lidar_tot

Total waveform LIDAR return signal

This measurement involves the simulation of the return signal of a waveform LIDAR accounting for all orders of scattering of radiation within the canopy. Guidelines for its implementation are exactly the same as in lidar_co_sgl.

lidar transmission
lidar transmission

Header

Header line content Header line format
# rows %4d
# columns in file %4d
heigth level interval %.10f

Columns content

Content Format
mean height level of bin [m] %.6f
return signal [-] %.10f
standard deviation of return signal* %.10f

*: if not available set to −1.0000000000.

The order in which the return signal from different height bins are listed in the measurement files is from the bottom of the canopy ($z_{min}$) towards the top of the canopy ($z_{max}$) height levels, as outlined below:

	20	3	0.050000
0.025000 0.0000001427 -1.0000000000
0.075000 0.0000000001 -1.0000000000
0.125000 0.0000000001 -1.0000000000
0.175000 0.0000000002 -1.0000000000
0.225000 0.0000000003 -1.0000000000
0.275000 0.0000000008 -1.0000000000
0.325000 0.0000000011 -1.0000000000
0.375000 0.0000000014 -1.0000000000
0.425000 0.0000000016 -1.0000000000
0.475000 0.0000000019 -1.0000000000
0.525000 0.0000000025 -1.0000000000
0.575000 0.0000000028 -1.0000000000
0.625000 0.0000000037 -1.0000000000
0.675000 0.0000000041 -1.0000000000
0.725000 0.0000000022 -1.0000000000
0.775000 0.0000000029 -1.0000000000
0.825000 0.0000000018 -1.0000000000
0.875000 0.0000000021 -1.0000000000
0.925000 0.0000000012 -1.0000000000
0.975000 0.0000000002 -1.0000000000