National Facilities
European Lidar Conference ELC 2023
CARS is honored to invite scientists and engineers working in the field of lidar and synergies to participate to the ELC2023.
The 4th edition of the European Lidar Conference (ELC) will take place in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) from the 13th to the 15th of September 2023, hosted by the Babeș-Bolyai University with on-site attendance.
This page will be updated with more information once available.
Conference website: https://enviro.ubbcluj.ro/european-lidar-conference-2023/
Topics:
- Challenges: strategic role of Research Infrastructures
- LIDAR applications, synergies, and campaigns
- LIDARS onboard satellites
- LIDAR Technologies & Open forum for companies and users
- Algorithms & Data
Important dates:
- 30th May: Abstract submission deadline
- 15th July: Notification of acceptance
- 15th August: Early registration deadline
- 31st August: Late registration deadline
First announcement: link to pdf

ACTRIS Science Conference 2024
All details are available at the ACTRIS Science Conference 2024 website:

2nd Central Asian Dust Conference
The Karakalpak State University Nukus (Uzbekistan) and Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) Leipzig (Germany) in cooperation with Philipps University of Marburg (Germany) are organizing the Second Central Asian Dust Conference (CADUC-2) during 14.-22.04.2024.
SPIE Sensors+Imaging Conference
The SPIE Sensors+Imaging’s Remote Sensing of Clouds and Atmosphere conference will be held in Berlin, 5-8 September 2022. This conference focuses on methods, underlying technologies, and applications of remote sensing of clouds and Earth and planetary atmospheres, including topics such as:

1st ACTRIS Science Conference
Wednesday, May 11th - Friday, May 13th 2022
Virtual Conference
Hosted by |
ACTRIS |
Organized by |
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), University of Helsinki Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center (ACCC), University of Helsinki |

European Lidar Conference 2021
The 3rd edition of the European Lidar Conference (ELC) will take place in Granada (Spain) from the 16th to the 18th of November 2021, hosted by the University of Granada, in a hybrid format.
The topics of the European Lidar Conference 2021 include:
- Lidar technology
- Lidar algorithms and data products
- Lidar applications
- Challenges: Atmospheric boundary layer and low altitude profiling
- Open topic: Synergies
- Open forum: companies and users
Deadlines:

Open call for abstract submissions to the SPIE Remote Sensing conference
The Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere conference within SPIE Remote Sensing focuses on methods, underlying technologies, and applications of remote sensing of clouds and Earth and planetary atmospheres.
The program includes the following topics:

Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere Conference
This conference focuses on methods, underlying technologies, and applications of remote sensing of clouds and Earth and planetary atmospheres.
The program includes the following topics:
- remote sensing, including profiling, of clouds, atmospheric aerosols, trace gases, and meteorological parameters;
- radiative transfer;
- lidar, radar, and other active and passive (microwave, infrared, visible, and ultraviolet) atmospheric measurement techniques and technologies;
- applications.
More detailed information in the event's flyer.

ACTRIS-Finland National Symposium
ACTRIS-Finland and Finnish Association for Aerosol Research (FAAR) will organize a virtual half-day seminar on Wednesday 25th November 2020 concentrating on observations of aerosol, clouds, and reactive trace gases. The aim of the symposium is to facilitate networking and exchange of knowledge among groups working on similar topics at different institutes across Finland and increase knowledge about the ACTRIS infrastructure and what it offers for researchers.
More information available here.