The US $ .036 million LIDAR, a technology transfer project from Australia , is being built by the Ateneo de Manila University young scientists, reports Update correspondent, Ysabel San Pedro.
The first Philippine made LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging System) to be used I as a pollution device will be completed in 1992.
The project will consist of the ND-YAG (Neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet ) laser as a transmitter, telescope as a receiver coupled with a detector for analysis and interpretation.
The LIDAR will scientifically monitor details such as the amount of pollution in terms of source, nature identification, type, number and degree of damage. It will function as a pollution index that will allow the city of Manila and its other metropolises to be compared with the pollution densities of Seoul, Jakarta, Washington D.C., and Paris.
The LIDAR is currently being tested for meteorological detection. This function will detect the amount of rain water in the clouds which can be seeded to control the amount of rainfall to prevent droughts brought about by the El Nino phenomenon around the globe.
International Environmental Update, June 1991
A Shandwick Group Publication in New South Wales, Australia
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