Title :
Improvements in atmospheric wind profiling using imaging Doppler interferometry
Author :
Palmer, R.D. ; Lei, K.Y. ; Solanki, P. ; Fukao, S. ; Yamamoto, M. ; Nakamura, T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nebraska Univ., Lincoln, NE, USA
Abstract :
Measuring atmospheric winds in a clear-air environment is made possible by scattering from refractive index variations in the atmosphere. Recently, multiple receiver techniques have received much attention in the atmospheric science community. By receiving the scattered signal from spatially-separated receiving antennas, one can extract winds when standard techniques may fail. An improvement on the technique is presented which makes use of the relative echo intensity of each scatterer. Further innovations on incoherent integration techniques, which reduce the computational load, are given
Keywords :
atmospheric techniques; meteorological radar; radar applications; remote sensing; remote sensing by radar; wind; atmosphere meteorology; clear-air; imaging Doppler interferometry; measurement technique; multiple receiver technique; radar remote sensing; spatially-separated receiving antenna; wind; wind profiling; Atmospheric measurements; Azimuth; Doppler radar; Interferometry; Measurement standards; Noise level; Radar scattering; Robustness; Satellite broadcasting; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1994. IGARSS '94. Surface and Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Technologies, Data Analysis and Interpretation., International
Conference_Location :
Pasadena, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1497-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1994.399766