CALL FOR PAPERS

Session 9: "Software and Automation"

Author: W. Gurtner, R. Ricklefs
Subject: Call for papers for 16th International Workshop on Laser Ranging
Session 9: "Software and Automation"

Dear colleagues,

we invite you to present a paper or poster in the Session "Software and Automation" at the 16th International Workshop on Laser Ranging in Poznan, scheduled on Wednesday, October 15, 14:00-16:00.

Possible topics of the session are:

Software

• Predictions innovations
• Range gate generation
• Overlap avoidance
• LRO tracking
• T2L2 tracking
• Tracking loops
• Station status exchange implementation and issues
• On-site data screening and normal point generation
  High-repetition rate laser systems
  Daylight tracking
  Sparse return rates
  Complicated signal structures
• CRD generation

Remote operation

• Supervision
• Control and operation
• Station status checks

Automation

• Experiences
• Automated on-site data processing
• Safety and security issues
• Station status checks
• Environmental sensors
  Cloud mapping
  Rain, fog, wind

Please send your abstracts by e-mail to the session chair and co-chair:

werner.gurtner@aiub.unibe.ch and ricklefs@csr.utexas.edu

Thanks and regards

Werner Gurtner and Randall Ricklefs