Signal Processing and Data Acquisition for Wind Profiler Using Labview

This paper presents the design of Wind Profiler using LabVIEW. Wind speed is a useful weather parameter to monitor and record for many applications like shipping, aviation, meteorology, construction etc. Wind observations are crucial importance for general (operational) aviation meteorology, and numerical weather prediction. Wind profiler radars are vertically directed pulsed Doppler radars capable of analyzing the backscattered signals to determine the velocity of air along the beams. Steering the beams typically 15° from zenith, the horizontal and vertical components of the air moment can be obtained. The extraction of zero th , first and second moments is the key reason for doing all the signal processing. For measurements above 20 km, the 50 MHz frequency band can be used. The paper discusses the issues such as the principle of wind profiler radar, how wind profilers estimate the horizontal wind as a function of altitude in „clear air‟, Doppler Beam Swinging (DBS) technique for Wind velocity measurement. Moment calculation and Signal processing of recoded experimental data is performed by LabVIEW code developed in my project.