Aircraft wake vortex measurement with airborne coherent doppler lidar

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1148-1155

  Rahm, Stephan ^a   Smalikho, Igor ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; DOPPLER EFFECT; OPTICAL RADAR; SMOKE; TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT; WAKES; WINGS;

AIRCRAFT WAKE VORTICES; COHERENT DOPPLER LIDAR; DOPPLER LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; HIGH QUALITY; LARGE TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT; PROCESSING PROCEDURES; WAKE VORTEX;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 49349107777     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.32896     Document Type: Article

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