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Environmental Monitoring Using Optical Techniques

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Applied Laser Spectroscopy

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Advanced techniques are needed to monitor our threatened environment, to evaluate pollution levels and developmental trends. Tropospheric pollution has obvious manifestations in terms of health problems, water and soil acidification, and forest damage. Human-induced stratospheric changes in the ozone layer, as evidenced by the occurrence of “ozone holes” at the polar caps, may have much more far-reaching consequences1–6. Laser spectroscopy provides powerful means for remote sensing of molecules in the atmosphere, yielding information on pollution levels as well as meteorological conditions. Laser-induced fluorescence provides interesting possibilities for remote monitoring of marine pollution and land vegetation. In the present paper we will consider remote sensing of the atmosphere as well as the marine environment using optical techniques. We will start with atmospheric monitoring.

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    Wolfgang Demtröder

  2. University of Florence and European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS), Florence, Italy

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Svanberg, S. (1990). Environmental Monitoring Using Optical Techniques. In: Demtröder, W., Inguscio, M. (eds) Applied Laser Spectroscopy. NATO ASI Series, vol 241. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1342-7_33

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