A navigation Doppler Lidar (DL) was developed at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) for high precision velocity measurements from a lunar or planetary landing vehicle in support of the Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology (ALHAT) project. A unique feature of this DL is that it has the capability to provide a precision velocity vector which can be easily separated into horizontal and vertical velocity components and high accuracy line of sight (LOS) range measurements. This dual mode of operation can provide useful information, such as vehicle orientation relative to the direction of travel, and vehicle attitude relative to the sensor footprint on the ground. System performance was evaluated in a series of helicopter flight tests over the California desert. This paper provides a description of the DL system and presents results obtained from these flight tests.


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    Title :

    Flight Test Performance of a High Precision Navigation Doppler Lidar


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    Conference:

    SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing 2009 ; 2009 ; Orlando, FL, United States


    Publication date :

    2009-04-13


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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