Enhanced Dual Filter for Floating Wind Lidar Motion Correction: The Impact of Wind and Initial Scan Phase Models

Abstract

An enhanced filter for floating Doppler wind lidar motion correction is presented. The filter relies on an unscented Kalman filter prototype for floating-lidar motion correction without access to the internal line-of-sight measurements of the lidar. In the present work, we implement a new architecture based on two cooperative estimation filters and study the impact of different wind and initial scan phase models on the filter performance in the coastal environment of Barcelona. Two model combinations are considered: (i) a basic random walk model for both the wind turbulence and the initial scan phase and (ii) an auto-regressive model for wind turbulence along with a uniform circular motion model for the scan phase. The filter motion-correction performance using each of the above models was evaluated with reference to a fixed lidar in different wind and motion scenarios (low- and high-frequency turbulence cases) recorded during a 25-day campaign at “Pont del Petroli”, Barcelona, by clustered statistical analysis. The auto-regressive wind model and the uniform circular motion phase model permitted the filter to overcome divergence in all wind and motion scenarios. The statistical indicators comparing both instruments showed overall improvement. The mean deviation increased from 1.62% (without motion correction) to −0.07% (with motion correction), while the root-mean-square error decreased from 1.87% to 0.58%, and the determination coefficient (R2) improved from 0.90 to 0.96.