Abstract: The random estimation or instrument error of coherent Doppler lidar velocity estimates with pulse accumulation (multiple lidar shots per velocity estimate) is determined with computer simulations for general conditions. ...

Abstract: The locally stationary temperature spectrum in the atmospheric surface layer is estimated using laser scintillation. The fluctuations of the parameters of the turbulence spectrum (the structure constant CT2 and inner scale ...

Abstract: The performance of coherent Doppler lidar velocity estimates for a space-based platform are produced using computer simulations of raw data and statistical descriptions of the resulting velocity estimates. The random spatial ...

Abstract: The performance of the maximum likelihood (ML) estimates of mean velocity and signal power for Doppler radar and Doppler lidar, assuming known signal spectral width, is presented. The results are compared with the theoretical ...

Abstract: Various methods of estimating the magnitude of the random error of Doppler lidar velocity measurements are compared for typical operating conditions using computer simulations of lidar data. Under certain conditions, the ...

Abstract: Verification of space-based wind measurements will be difficult because of the random variations of the atmospheric velocity field over the measurement volume. The definition of accuracy requires a definition of ?truth.? ...

Abstract: The performance of coherent Doppler lidar in the weak-signal regime is investigated by computer simulations of velocity estimators that accumulate the signal from N pulses of zero-mean complex Gaussian stationary lidar ...

Abstract: canning Doppler lidar is a promising technology for improvements in short-term wind power forecasts since it can scan close to the surface and produce wind profiles at a large distance upstream (15?30 km) if the atmosphere ...

Abstract: The effects of wind turbulence on pulsed coherent Doppler lidar performance are investigated theoretically and with computer simulations. The performance of velocity estimators is determined for the case of a single ...

Abstract: The performance of 2- and 10-µm coherent Doppler lidar is presented in terms of the statistical distribution of the maximum-likelihood velocity estimator from simulations for fixed range resolution and fixed velocity search ...