Extended Abstract (80K)P5B.9
An Eye-Safety Radar for Lidar Operations
Grant R. Gray, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Pratte
Probing the atmosphere using certain wavelengths of high-intensity visible and non-visible light (LIDAR) presents a visual hazard to pilots of aircraft at close range. In order to safely operate the LEANDRE lidar during the International H2O Project (IHOP 2002) a small marine radar was used to detect nearby aircraft and disable the lidar before the aircraft encountered the lidar beam. This magnetron based radar was operated in pseudo-coherent (coherent-on-receive) mode in order to derive both non-coherent and coherent parameters for use by the aircraft detection algorithm. The detection algorithm and the parameters required by the algorithm are discussed in detail in this paper.
Poster Session 5B, Radar Systems/Network Poster
Monday, 11 August 2003, 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
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