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Articles | Volume 10, issue 10
Articles | Volume 10, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3851-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3851-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 10, issue 10
Research article
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19 Oct 2017
Research article |  | 19 Oct 2017

Impact of pitch angle fluctuations on airborne lidar forward sensing along the flight direction

Alexander Sergeevich Gurvich and Victor Alexeevich Kulikov

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The experimental and numerical simulation results of lidar sensing ahead of the airplane's flight direction were analyzed. Pitch angle fluctuations, even when compensated for within the error limits of a typical beam-steering system, can produce significant fluctuations in the backscattered signal. This effect appears in the presence of aerosol clusters with vertical size of about a few hundred meters. A simple criterion to distinguish these fluctuations from aerosol evolution is suggested.
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