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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1976
Filed:
Dec. 03, 1975
James C Fletcher, , US;
William C Cliff, Huntsville, AL (US);
Robert M Huffaker, Huntsville, AL (US);
Werner K Dahm, Huntsville, AL (US);
James A Thomson, Berkeley, CA (US);
Thomas R Lawrence, Huntsville, AL (US);
Michael C Krause, Huntsville, AL (US);
David J Wilson, Huntsville, AL (US);
Other;
Abstract
A system for remotely measuring vertical and horizontal winds present in discrete volumes of air at selected locations above the ground. A laser beam is optically focused in range by a telescope, and the output beam is conically scanned at an angle .theta. about a vertical axis. The backscatter, or reflected light, from the ambient particulates in a volume of air, the focal volume, is detected for shifts in wavelength, and from these, horizontal and vertical wind components are computed.