Cross-wind profiling based on the scattered wave scintillation in a telescope focus.
The problem of wind profile reconstruction from scintillation of an optical wave scattered off a rough surface in a telescope focus plane is considered. Both the expression for the spatiotemporal correlation function and the algorithm of cross-wind velocity and direction profiles reconstruction based on the spatiotemporal spectrum of intensity of an optical wave scattered by a diffuse target in a turbulent atmosphere are presented. Computer simulations performed under conditions of weak optical turbulence show wind profiles reconstruction by the developed algorithm.
Banakh
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VA
Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia. banakh@iao.ru
Marakasov
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DA
Vorontsov
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MA