Development of 2-μm airborne coherent Doppler lidar at NICT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6409, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ishii, S ^a   Mizutani, K ^a   Itabe, T ^a   Aoki, T ^a   Ohno, Y ^a   Horie, H ^a   Shimabukuro, T ^b   Sato, A ^c   Asai, K ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airborne; Coherent; Doppler; Eye safe; Lidar; Wind measurement

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; COHERENT LIGHT; DOPPLER EFFECT; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SPEED; WIND EFFECTS;

AIRBORNE; DOPPLER LIDAR; EYE SAFE; WIND MEASUREMENT;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 33846818751     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.693526     Document Type: Conference Paper

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