Feasibility studies for a global wind measuring satellite system (Windsat): analysis of simulated performance
Abstract
A detailed computer simulation of the Windsat global wind measuring process has been developed and used to establish error limits as a function of design parameters. Studies were conducted for a Windsat research system in a 300- and an 800-km orbit. Wind measuring errors were less than 2 m/sec in the troposphere for the recommended set of parameters. The study results indicate the feasibility of measuring global winds from a space platform using a coherent laser radar.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- August 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1364/AO.23.002523
- Bibcode:
- 1984ApOpt..23.2523H
- Keywords:
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- Computerized Simulation;
- Feasibility Analysis;
- Optical Radar;
- Space Platforms;
- Synoptic Meteorology;
- Wind Measurement;
- Atmospheric Sounding;
- Coherent Radar;
- Error Analysis;
- Instrument Errors;
- Meteorological Satellites;
- Performance Prediction;
- Radar Measurement;
- Remote Sensing;
- Troposphere;
- Spacecraft Instrumentation;
- SATELLITES;
- WINDS;
- LIDAR: HETERODYNING;
- METEOROLOGY