On-board axial detection of wake vortices using a 2-μm LiDAR

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1276-1290

  Douxchamps, Damien ^a   Lugan, Sébastien ^b   Verschueren, Yannick ^b   Mutuel, Laurence ^c   Macq, Benoît ^b   Chihara, Kunihiro ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c THALES AVIONICS   (France)

Author keywords

Air traffic control; Airports; Atmospheric modeling; Distance measurement; Doppler effect; Laser radar

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; CONTROL TOWERS; DOPPLER EFFECT; LIGHT; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WAVES;

AIR SPEED; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLES; DOPPLER; DOPPLER LIDARS; FLIGHT TESTS; GROUND-BASED; LASER RADAR; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; PRIMITIVE MODELS; SPECTRAL ESTIMATIONS; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACHES; WAKE VORTICES;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 62349123390     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2008.4667709     Document Type: Article

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