Two-Dimensional Active-Pixel Spectral Lidar

Two-dimensional active-pixel-spectral lidar (TAPSL) is a proposed remote-sensing technique for obtaining spatially, spectrally, and temporally resolved information about terrain or other targets. Operating aboard an airborne or spaceborne platform above the Earth or a remote planet, a TAPSL system would be used to gather data on geological, biological, and chemical phenomena that manifest themselves through characteristic optical emission spectra.