Focusing on elastic lidars, the most common type of lidars in use, Kovalev (USDA Forest Service) and Eichinger (civil and environmental engineering, University of Iowa) discuss practical elastic lidar methodology and inversion techniques, data analysis methods, and the construction of elastic lidars in this handbook for researchers, graduate students, and lidar users. Coverage progresses from light propagation in the atmosphere and fundamentals of the lidar technique, to hardware solutions to the inversion problem, and wind measurement methods from elastic lidar data. Material is written to be comprehensible to lidar users in fields other than physics, yet detailed enough to be of interest to experienced lidar users. The book can also serve as a reference for remote sensing researchers. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)