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OPHIR Corporation's innovative lidar technology offers a solution for continuous monitoring of clear air turbulence, enabling precise measurements of wind speed, temperature, and pressure from a single sensor. The technology improves aircraft performance, reduces avionics weight, and enhances measurement accuracy. It has garnered interest from military, commercial aircraft, and government science sectors, with strategic alliances formed for product calibration and testing. The prototype is a valuable tool for research on atmospheric winds.
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Small Business Innovation Research Wind Field and Wind Shear Lidar Combining The RM-CW and Edge TechniquesOPHIR Corporation Littleton CO • INNOVATION Relatively simple solution to the long standing problem of continuous monitoring for clear air turbulence. Uses the recently developed high power master-oscillator power-amplifier diode laser which can function for several thousand hours without failure. • ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Demonstrated the technology’s capability for measuring relative airspeed, temperature and pressure measurements from a single sensor. • Delivered prototype. COMMERCIALIZATION • U.S. Patent Application in process. • Provides a unique capability for measuring relative wind speed, air temperature and air pressure from a single sensor • Reduces avionics weight, improves measurement performance, lowers system cost, improves reliability • Established Important Strategic Alliances with Two Major Aerospace Companies. These Aerospace companies have committed significant internal resources for productcalibration, wind tunnel testing and flight testing. • Military, Flight Test and Commercial Aircraft Markets. • Aircraft air speed, angle-of-attack, angle-of-sideslip, air temperature and air pressure all from a single sensor. • Improved air data for high performance military aircraft • Improved fuel efficiency for commercial aircraft • Improved measurement performance for wind tunnels and flight test operations • GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS • Prototype is test instrument for study “Miniature Doppler Aerosol Backscatter Lidar for Detection of Atmospheric Winds.” Points of Contact: NASA – Bruce Gentry (301) 614-6271 OPHIR – Martin O’Brien (303) 933-2200 Goddard Space Flight Center 1993 Phase II, SS5-067, 9/02