Airborne direct-detection and coherent wind lidar measurements along the east coast of Greenland in 2009 supporting ESA's Aeolus mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8182, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Marksteiner, Uwe ^a   Reitebuch, Oliver ^a   Rahm, Stephan ^a   Nikolaus, Ines ^b   Lemmerz, Christian ^a   Witschas, Benjamin ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Physics Solutions   (Germany)

Author keywords

ADM aeolus; ALADIN; Wind lidar

Indexed keywords

ADM-AEOLUS; AIRBORNE DEMONSTRATOR; ALADIN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DIRECT-DETECTION; EAST COAST; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; GLOBAL WIND PROFILE; GREENLAND; ICELANDS; INTERPOLATION ALGORITHMS; LIDAR SYSTEMS; LINE OF SIGHT; MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLE; PROTOTYPE INSTRUMENT; RAYLEIGH; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS; WIND LIDAR; WIND MEASUREMENT;

AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTS; ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; ERROR DETECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 81055127243     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.897528     Document Type: Conference Paper

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