WINDSAT is a proposed space based global wind measuring system. A Shuttleborne experiment is proposed as a proof of principle demonstration before development of a full operational system. WINDSAT goals are to measure wind speed and direction to + or - 1 m/s and 10 deg accuracy over the entire earth from 0 to 20 km altitude with 1 km altitude resolution. The wind measuring instrument is a coherent lidar incorporating a pulsed CO2 TEA laser transmitter and a continuously scanning 1.25 m diameter optical system. The wind speed is measured by heterodyne detecting the backscattered return laser radiation and measuring this frequency shift.
Lockheed design of a wind satellite (WINDSAT) experiment
1985-01-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
The WINDSAT concept for measuring the global wind field
NTRS | 1985
|NTIS | 1971
Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
Engineering Index Backfile | 1928