For accurate weather forecasts for Europe it is crucial to capture the winds over the North Atlantic as precisely as possible. Scientists at the DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics have developed an ...

The department “Lidar” develops ground-based, airborne and spaceborne lidar systems and applies them for active remote sensing of key meteorological parameters and atmospheric trace gases to ...

Though the system is still in its infancy, the folks at the DLR hope that the technology will one day become a standard part of commercial air travel. Fact: turbulence is no fun at all.

Riccardo Giubilato, Wolfgang Stürzl, Armin Wedler, Rudolph Triebel (2022) Challenges of SLAM in Extremely Unstructured Environments: The DLR Planetary Stereo, Solid-State LiDAR, Inertial Dataset. IEEE ...