Dr. Gary G. Gimmestad

Dr. Gimmestad was head of a successful lidar development team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute for 29 years. In 2012, his team won the OSA Engineering Excellence Award, for a 25-year history of making significant advances in atmospheric lidar technology.

Dr. Gimmestad developed and teaches a 3-1/2 day short course on lidar engineering annually at Georgia Tech, see https://pe.gatech.edu/courses/atmospheric-lidar-engineering. He is a world-renowned lecturer on lidar technology, having proposed and organized free lidar tutorials in conjunction with the biennial International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC). He has twice received plaques for his service to the lidar community in recognition of his teaching.

Cambridge University Press has recently published his textbook, Lidar Engineering: Introduction to Basic Principles, coauthored by D. W. Roberts, see https://cambridge.org/9780521198516. This is the first true textbook for atmospheric lidar, with worked examples and homework problems, and it is the first to address the engineering of lidar systems. It is written for advanced undergraduates.