“…In this paper, we continue the study, in which estimates of the reconstructed optical thicknesses will be given, taking into account the simulated lidar signals themselves, noise, various probing options and the signals received at the same time and the possibilities of restoring the characteristics of the sources are investigated. The main conclusion made in the previous work [1] was related to the fact that from the side of the space platform it is possible to detect mainly only fairly powerful sources, above 300 kg/s, refined estimates are given here. Calculations of the optical depth in the case of accounting for gas sources are quite computationally complex, since they require a fairly accurate calculation of the absorption coefficients on the part of the route where these sources are located.…”