Recently, the use of space-borne atmospheric lidar measurements for the study of ocean color has provided insight into the relevance of the information provided by the lidar technique in this field. The Cloud and Aerosol Lidar for Global Scale Observations of the Ocean-Land-Atmosphere System (CALIGOLA) space mission, conceived by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), will be the first space lidar mission with a focus also on oceanic observation. Within this frame, the PeRfOrmance simulaTor for ocEan Observations (PROTEO) project aims at supporting the CALIGOLA mission by consolidating and extending the scientific and application aspects of the mission, quantitatively assessing its ocean observation capabilities. The core activity of the project is the development of an end-to-end Lidar Performance Simulator (E2E-LPS) for OC measurements with the objective of assessing the specifics of CALIGOLA lidar system and estimating the expected OC performances. An overview of PROTEO is here presented.
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