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Improved VAD horizontal wind retrievals using high-altitude airborne Doppler radar
A NASA invention available to explore as a licensing opportunity.
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Overview
Traditionally, velocity-azimuth display (VAD) wind retrievals are performed using a single rotation of a ground-based or airborne radar antenna. The processed data from this technique contains assumptions about the horizontal and vertical wind conditions which can result in large measurement errors. NASA has innovated a process for utilizing higher data density provided by an airborne radar to ingest more data into each VAD retrieval than the traditional VAD technique while keeping a similar or smaller spatial footprint.