Patent attributes
A wind measurement lidar includes: an output unit to output a laser beam; a transmitter-receiver to emit the laser beam produced by the output unit into the air, and to receive a scattered beam of the laser beam; a received signal acquiring unit to obtain a received signal through heterodyne detection of the laser beam and the beam acquired via the transmitter-receiver; a controller to control the transmitter-receiver; a storage to store as a noise signal the received signal obtained when the laser beam is controlled so as to be produced, but not to be emitted into the air; a frequency difference unit to subtract the noise signal from the received signal obtained when the laser beam is controlled so as to be emitted into the air; and a wind speed measurer to measure a wind speed from the subtraction result.
