U nless you’re answering a casting call for the next installment in the Fast and Furious franchise or Elon Musk deciding to ...

Above: A platform designed to stabilize a large Doppler lidar as it operates inside an airplane flying through a hurricane. You wouldn’t dream of flying through a hurricane, would you? Yet NOAA has ...

Above: An aircraft-mounted, two-axis scanner for a Doppler lidar to study complex wind patterns found around wildfires in complex terrain or near the coast. Top Image: Team members from left to right: ...

Already several years before the satellite launch, an airborne prototype of the direct-detection Doppler wind lidar, the ALADIN Airborne Demonstrator (A2D), was developed at DLR in collaboration with ...

Named after the Greek god of the winds, the satellite carried the revolutionary instrument ALADIN - the first European lidar and the world's first Doppler wind lidar in space. The Aeolus mission was a ...