Computer simulation of coherent Doppler lidar measurement of wind velocity and retrieval of turbulent wind statistics

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-19

  Banakh, V A ^a   Werner, Christian ^b  

^a V E ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS   (Russian Federation)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Simulation; Statistics; Turbulence; Wind coherent Doppler lidar

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; VELOCITY;

COHERENT DOPPLER LIDARS (CDLS); KARMAN MODEL; TURBULENT WIND STATISTICS; WIND COHERENT DOPPLER LIDAR;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 27144449640     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1955167     Document Type: Article

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