Coherent LIDAR for Monitoring Air Pollution and Atmospheric Wind-fields

工业、政府和民防迫切需要紧凑的、可现场部署的传感器，这些传感器可以测量风并监测大气边界层的污染。如果没有这些传感器，它们就无法测量工业排放、环境污染物和运行条件下的化学/生物毒素的风向扩散，并做出明智的决定。该项目将开发人眼安全的相干激光雷达(光探测和测距)系统，该系统可以测量距离长达10公里的风速，精度约为1米/S，并可根据需要部署到野外地点。这项技术将引起商业部门的极大兴趣。

Industry, government and civil defence urgently require compact, field deployable sensors that can measure winds and monitor pollution in the atmospheric boundary layer. Without these sensors they are unable to measure and make informed decisions about windborne dispersion of industrial emissions, environmental pollutants, and chemical/biological toxins under operational conditions. The project will develop eye-safe coherent lidar (light detection and ranging) systems that can measure wind velocities at ranges of up to 10 km with an accuracy of about 1 m/s, and can be deployed to field sites as required. The technology will be of major interest to the commercial sector.