Novel nonlinear adaptive Doppler-shift estimation technique for the coherent Doppler validation lidar

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Beyon, Jeffrey Y ^a,b   Koch, Grady J ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent lidar; Doppler shift; Maximum likelihood; Nonlinear adaptive Doppler shift estimation technique; Periodogram; Subspace; Validation lidar; Wind profiling

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; ESTIMATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIND EFFECTS;

COHERENT LIDAR; NONLINEAR ADAPTIVE DOPPLER-SHIFT ESTIMATION; WIND PROFILING;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 34247259887     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2434768     Document Type: Article

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