Feasibility studies for a global wind measuring satellite system (Windsat): analysis of simulated performance
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 23 (15), 2523-2536
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.23.002523
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 −1 in the troposphere for the recommended set of parameters. Our study results indicate the feasibility of measuring global winds from a space platform using a coherent laser radar.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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