Topic Categories
Optics and Photonics for Sensing the Environment (ES)
ES focuses on using optical sensing to monitor all aspects of the environment, from point sources to global scales. Topics range from the development of novel technologies and their first field demonstrations to long-term applications in monitoring networks.
Topics of Interest
- Novel Techniques for Environmental Sensing
- Frequency comb spectroscopy
- Supercontinuum light sources and their applications
- Integrated photonic sensors
- Fiber-based spectroscopic sensors
- Low-cost optical sensors and their networks
- New technologies for remote observations
- Stable isotopes and radiocarbon
- Leveraging data-driven methods for optical detection
- Observations for Environmental and Climate Research
- In-situ measurements of air pollutants and greenhouse gases
- Ground-based remote sensing techniques, e.g., LIDAR, DOAS and FTIR
- Satellite and airborne observations
- Large-scale observation networks
- Aerosols and aerosol cloud interactions
- Aqueous and marine environment
- Optical methods for the cryosphere, e.g., ice sheet, sea ice and permafrost
- Monitoring of the urban environment
- Embracing open data and FAIR principles
- Industrial and Agricultural Applications
- Applications in wastewater treatment, oil and gas, waste incineration, renewable and petrogenic energy production, transportation, etc.
- Process quality control
- Safety applications
- Optical techniques for smart agriculture
- Fenceline monitoring
- Stand-off and extractive detection of plumes, leaks and fugitive emissions
