Coherent lidar airborne wind sensor II: Flight-test results at 2 and 10 μm

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 36, 1996, Pages 7117-7127

  Targ, Russell ^a   Steakley, Bruce C ^a   Hawley, James G ^a   Ames, Lawrence L ^a   Forney, Paul ^a   Swanson, David ^a   Stone, Richard ^a   Otto, Robert G ^a   Zarifis, Vassilis ^a   Brockman, Philip ^b   Calloway, Raymond S ^b   Klein, Sarah Harrell ^c   Robinson, Paul A ^b  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; CLASS; LIDAR; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 5744238555     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.007117     Document Type: Article

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