title: Evaluation of coherent Doppler lidar velocity estimators in nonstationary regimes.
abstract: We evaluate the mean velocity estimator performance for coherent Doppler lidar measurements of wind fields with wind shear and nonuniform system response as a function of target range. Performance of the velocity estimates is characterized by the bias and standard deviation that are determined by computer simulations. Results are for solid-state lasers with a Gaussian transmitted pulse. We consider data with high signal energy that produces negligible random outliers.
authors.forename: B T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Lottman
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Frehlich