Recovering of the wind speed vector from lidar sensing data using the spline approximation

Nikolay A. Baranov

Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS

The paper considers the problem of recovering the horizontal wind speed from lidar scanning data, which provide measurements of the radial component. An approach is proposed in which the wind speed components are calculated not at a single point, but at a given set of nodes located along a given direction. The proposed algorithm uses the idea of coordinate-wise calculation of vector components. Each component is calculated by the spline approximation of a specially selected subset of measurements. The results of numerical calculations are presented.

wind speed recovering, spline approximation, lidar scanning

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