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Wind-Profiling Lidar Betters Airdrop Accuracy

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Ruth A. Mendonsa

The US Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base has taken another step forward in its efforts to improve the accuracy of high-altitude aerial delivery. The Airdrop Ballistic Winds team is testing and demonstrating what it calls the Operationally Capable Lidar (OCL), a system that features a notable improvement over its predecessors. It provides real-time, three-dimensional maps of wind fields from altitude to ground with range slices of less than 100 m and velocity accuracy to within 0.5 m/s. The lidar wind-profiling system being tested by the US Air Force is...Read full article

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