Velocity retrieval for coherent Doppler lidar

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3596-3613

  Kongara, Shantanu ^a   Calhoun, Ron ^b,c   Choukulkar, Aditya ^b   Boldi, Marc Olivier ^d  

^a Applied Environmental Consultants Inc   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Arizona State University   (United States)

^d Fundo SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; FLOW FIELDS; VECTORS; VELOCITY;

ATMOSPHERIC WINDS; COHERENT DOPPLER LIDAR; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; LOCAL INFORMATION; RADAR DATA ASSIMILATION; RETRIEVAL METHODS; VELOCITY RETRIEVALS; VELOCITY VECTORS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AZIMUTH; BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER LIDAR; RADAR;

EID: 84857001774     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.631948     Document Type: Article

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