Performance verification of mobile Doppler wind lidar

Abstract

Coherent Doppler wind lidar has made significant progress in wind profile measurement because of its high temporal and spatial resolution. All-fiber Coherent Doppler wind lidar has caused most interest in mobile wind detection due to its excellent stability and reliability. A theoretical model was analyzed based on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) function, the SNR of continuous-wave and pulsed lidar with different focusing distances was evaluated. A 1550 nm all-fiber mobile Doppler wind lidar was designed for wind profile measurement. The system consists of a narrow-linewidth seed laser, a single-mode fiber amplifier, transceiver optics, and a data processing system. In order to verify the performance of the mobile laser lidar, a velocity calibration experiment was carried out on a moving car with a speed of 10-30 m/s in December 2020. The wind velocity of laser lidar and ultrasonic anemometers was measured and compared with a different elevation angle of laser. Results show good agreement between both measurements. The correlation coefficient is great than 0.96, and the standard deviation of velocity is less than 0.79 m/s.