Concerned with the different usage, the scanning system only use by Bi-static Lidar system based on prism or oscillating mirror and the receiving system is designed.
Satellite Cloud-Aerosol Lidar (CALIOP) practices a routine vertically sliced scanning through the earth's atmosphere, forming a 3-D monitoring network with high resolution on cloud and aerosol.
The scanning system can be used by both Mono-static and Bi-static Lidar system simultaneously and also can be used by Mono-static Lidar receiving system for back scattering of the target.