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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2013
Applicant:
The United States of America As Represented BY the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC (US);
Inventors:
Jeffrey Y. Beyon, Yorktown, VA (US);
Grady J. Koch, Yorktown, VA (US);
Michael J. Kavaya, Yorktown, VA (US);
Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/95 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/95 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and devices of the present invention enable airborne Doppler Wind LIDAR system measurements and INS/GPS measurements to be combined to estimate wind parameters and compensate for instrument misalignment. In a further embodiment, the wind speed and wind direction may be computed based on two orthogonal line-of-sight LIDAR returns.