Mitsubishi Electric to Supply Terminal Doppler Lidar to Météo-France for Enhanced Aircraft & Flight Traffic Safety During C...
July 11 2018 - 10:10PM
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Company’s first Terminal Doppler Lidar delivery
in Europe will support strategy to expand global sales to 2.5
billion yen by March 2021
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced today
that it has been awarded a contract by Météo-France, the national
meteorological service in France, to supply a Terminal Doppler
Lidar system (DIABREZZA™ A Series) for use at Nice Côte d’Azur
Airport, France’s second-busiest international airport, which
handled 13.3 million passengers in 2017. Mitsubishi Electric will
supply its first Terminal Doppler Lidar in Europe with this order.
The company aims to expand its weather radar and lidar business,
including Terminal Doppler Lidar, in global markets to net sales of
about 2.5 billion yen by March 2021.
Neither the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar system for detecting
wind shear around airports nor radar using microwaves to measure
precipitation are effective in clear-weather conditions. To
maximize prevention of aircraft accidents due to wind shear,
detection is required under all conditions, not just during
precipitation, which is why the integration of radar and lidar is
especially crucial for large-scale airports.
A Terminal Doppler Lidar transmits laser beams and then detects
light backscattered by dust and other particles in the air, which
enables the system to measure line-of-sight wind speed using the
Doppler frequency shift of the backscattered light. Mitsubishi
Electric has developed a planar waveguide amplifier that extends
the line-of-sight wind speed observation range to more than 20km
and complies with Standards and Recommended Practices of the
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), an organization
ensuring that civil aviation operations and regulations conform to
international norms.
Mitsubishi Electric has been delivering Terminal Doppler Lidar
systems to airports since 2015. Five systems supplied by the
company are currently operating at Tokyo (Japan), Narita (Japan)
and Hong Kong (China) international airports. Another two are
scheduled to be delivered to Beijing Daxing (China) and Antalya
(Turkey) international airports in 2018, prior to the delivery to
Nice Côte d’Azur Airport.
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