Abstract

Many of the expectations for the performance of a space-based Doppler lidar are based on the experience gained from ground-based lidar systems. To date, to our knowledge, there have been no pulsed-Doppler-lidar wind measurements made with a space-based perspective on the atmosphere. In particular, many of concepts of the the space-based Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder (LAWS) were derived from existing ground-based-lidar programs (NASA and NOAA) with pulse-pair algorithms involving 3–50 shots per estimate. A space-based system will probably have a pulse repetition rate of 20 Hz, and each shot will be processed separately.

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