Performance Analysis And Technical Assessment Of Coherent Lidar Systems For Airborne Wind Shear Detection

12 April 1988

proceedings article
Published by SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng

Vol. 889, 65-76
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.944249

Abstract

The feasibility of using a pulsed coherent lidar for an on-board airline wind shear monitoring system was studied using detailed computer simulations of the lidar wind measuring process. Lidar performance was studied using NASA-LaRC-provided data fields of an actual microburst event that occurred on August 2, 1985 at the Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport. Both CO2 and Ho:YAG lidar systems performed well in the dry micro-burst test case. Both lidar systems are able to measure wind shear in the severe weather of the wet microburst to ranges greater than 1.4 km giving minimum warning times of approximately 15 sec.© (1988) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

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