A Comparative Assessment Study of Doppler Wind Lidar Technologies: “Lidar Compass”: Technical Readiness, Performance, and Scalability to Space-Based Operation for Measuring Global Atmospheric 3D Wind Profiles: A study performed under the BAA-NOAA-3DWinds-2022, Objective B Joint Venture Partnerships Program - A Comparative Assessment Study of Doppler Wind Lidar Technologies: “Lidar Compass”

With funding from NOAA NESDIS Joint Venture Project Office, BAE Systems-SMS (SMS) and the University of Colorado (CU) Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) performed a comparative assessment of measurement performance, technology readiness, mission complexity, and cost risks for multiple Doppler wind lidar (DWL) technologies in support of future NOAA 3D-Winds observations. The study goal was to provide NOAA NESDIS with information valuable for developing 3D-wind requirements for next-generation operational weather space architectures and help quantify potential performance of such 3D Winds observations to address the needs of NOAA’s next generation Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation. Contract no. 1332KP22CNEEP0007