REMOTE MICROSCOPY, NANOSCOPY AND PICOSCOPY BY HYPERSPECTRAL LIDAR

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HyperSense will spearhead hyperspectral lidars expanded to exotic spectral regions outside the imaginable by lidar community, and demonstrate stand-off biosensing beyond what can be resolved by existing methods by employing plasma and supercontinuum light sources. Leveraging my patented hyperspectral Scheimpflug lidar concept, adding an uncontested number of spectral bands, spatio-temporal resolution and sensitivity, We will reveal aspects of our biosphere inaccessible by existing lidars. Active remote sensing of our biosphere uncovers details that cannot be resolved in space and time by sunlight, e.g. protein absorbance shielded by the ozone layer, life in dark ocean depths, narrow oxygen lines in a breath or nocturnal movements of disease vectors. Lidar constitute an efficient measurement technique where the same light transilluminates a volume until it interacts with the sample and simultaneously reports range and backscatter quantitatively, whereas hyperspectral lidar also provide microscopic absorption pathlengths, nano-features on biological surfaces, and deformations of electron shells on the picometer scale. HyperSense will explode multiple boundaries of current lidar, demonstrate and revolutionize biomonitoring, by my inexpensive, robust, compact and portable Scheimpflug method. HyperSense comprise 4 novel hyperspectral lidars with short, long, narrow and broad spectral coverage, applied to 8 biological challenges, showcasing light-biology interactions on the micro, nano and picoscopic level: A) DUV lidar (220-440 nm) Biomolecules specificity for classification of pollen and lichen B) Aquatic lidar (400-800 nm) Profile plankton biodiversity using both oscillatory and spectral properties C) Hires NIR lidar (760-762 nm) Resolving O2 and temperature in breath to understand host seeking and hill-topping in insects D) SWIR lidar (900-2500 nm) Quantify the surface nanostructures, internal tissue microstructure and molecular composition of vegetation and aerofauna