Improvements in atmospheric wind profiling using imaging Doppler interferometry

Measuring atmospheric winds in a clear-air environment is made possible by scattering from refractive index variations in the atmosphere. Recently, multiple receiver techniques have received much attention in the atmospheric science community. By receiving the scattered signal from spatially-separated receiving antennas, one can extract winds when standard techniques may fail. An improvement on the technique is presented which makes use of the relative echo intensity of each scatterer. Further innovations on incoherent integration techniques, which reduce the computational load, are given. >