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Results from one year of test soundings by the French-Russian ALISSA lidar on board the MIR platform since April 1996, are presented in this paper. They indicate that, even with a low power monochromatic lidar, valuable information on the multi-layered cloud structure can be obtained to complement geo-stationary cloud imagery.Le lidar franco-russe Alissa, place en avril 1996 sur la station spatiale...