AnAllDigital Automated WindMeasurement System
N. K. JainandD, PAULINE A. ATHERTON, F.W. Taylor, Thomas H. Pries · 1977
Inaddition tosupplying basic meteorological infor- mation, vectored windvelocity measurements areessential tothe analysis ofsmall caliber ballistic trajectories, optical wave prop- agation intheloweratmosphere, andwindshearsandvorticies. Conventional electromechanical methods, using velocity-to-direct currentconverters, areoftenunsatisfactory whenintegrated into a multisensor array overlongpathlengths. An alldigital system capable ofoperating asan arrayoverlongpathlengths hasbeen developed. Thesystemistotally automated. Usingcomplementary metaloxidized semiconductors (CMOS)signal processing remote dataacquisition stations, operated undermicroprocessor control, reliable andaccurateasynchronous datatransfer hasbeenob- tained. I. INTRODrUCTION