Wind Hazard and Turbulence Monitoring Atairports With Lidar, Radar, and Mode-S Downlinks: The UFO Project

This article presents the prospects of measurement systems for wind hazards and turbulence at airports, which have been explored in the Ultrafast Wind Sensors (UFO) project. At France’s Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, in situ, profiling, and scanning sensors have been used to collect measurements, from which wind vectors and turbulence intensities are...

Radar micro-Doppler of Wind Turbines: Low-Frequency Polarimetric Extension of Simplified Analytical Model

A simplified polarimetric model for radar signal scattering on wind turbines (WT) is proposed, which can be used for interpretation of observation in time and Doppler domains. This model uses representation of real WT as slowly rotating linear wire structures. The earlier proposed model has been extended to more general cases of WT with...

Mission-Driven Resource Management for Reconfigurable Sensing Systems

Modern sensors, such as multifunctional radars, comprise many settings and the number of controllable settings is increasing due to technological advance. Although having many settings allows many capabilities, it simultaneously requires an automatic manager to control them. This paper proposes mission-driven resource management to control...

Sparsity-Based Optimization of the Sensors Positions in Radar Networks with Separated Transmit and Receive Nodes

A sparsity-based approach for the joint optimization of the transmit and the receive nodes positions in the radar network with widely distributed antennas is proposed in this paper. The optimization problem is formulated as minimization of the number of radars that meet fixed target localization requirements over the surveillance area. We...

Turbulence intensity retrieval in precipitation via optimal estimation using polarimetric radar (poster)

Exploitation of homogeneous isotropic turbulence models for optimization of turbulence remote sensing

Homogeneous isotropic turbulence (HIT) models are compared, with respect to optimization of turbulence remote sensing. HIT models have different applications such as load calculation for wind turbines (Mann, 1998) or droplet track modelling (Pinsky and Khain, 2006). Details of vortices seem of less relevance for modelling `realistic measurements...

Exploitation of homogeneous isotropic turbulence models for optimization of turbulence remote sensing

Homogeneous isotropic turbulence (HIT) models are compared, with respect to optimization of turbulence remote sensing. HIT models have different applications such as load calculation for wind turbines (Mann, 1998) or droplet track modelling (Pinsky and Khain, 2006). Details of vortices seem of less relevance for modelling `realistic measurements...

Exploitation of homogeneous isotropic turbulence models for optimization of turbulence remote sensing

A new model for retrieving information about turbulence intensity from radar signal

This paper presents mathematical models that are necessary to describe the relationship between Doppler spectrum width of the signal reflected from precipitation and eddy dissipation rate of turbulence kinetic energy. The feature of the models is taking into account the contribution of drop fall velocity variance, which is analyzed in detail,...

Radar micro-Doppler of wind turbines: Simulation and analysis using rotating linear wire structures

A simple electromagnetic model of wind-turbine's main structural elements as the linear wired structures is developed to simulate the temporal patterns of observed radar return Doppler spectra (micro-Doppler). Using the model, the micro-Doppler for different combinations of the turbines rotation frequency, radar pulse repetition frequency, and...

Optimization of turbulence measurements for radar, lidar and sonic anemometers

Simulation of atmospheric turbulence: Fractal turbulence (poster)

Simulation of atmospheric turbulence measurements: Fractal turbulence (poster)

A new trend is to observe atmospheric turbulence fields by using scanning Doppler radars and/or lidars. See e.g. Chan (2011) for the retrieval of eddy dissipation rate (EDR) maps at the Hongkong International Airport.

Multi-channel reconfigurable front-end architecture for waveform-agile radar

This paper presents the design of a multi-channel reconfigurable front-end architecture for a waveform-agile radar. At first the purpose of the design is explained following the status of research on software-defined radar at MTSR. A description of the proposed system architecture is given with details on sub-systems implementation. Then some...