April 4 (SeeNews) - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has won a contract to supply a terminal Doppler lidar system to Romanian provider of air navigation services ROMATSA, it said on Thursday.
The system will be delivered in 2020 and will be used at Henri Coanda International Airport in Bucharest, Romania's busiest airport, Mitsubishi Electric said in a statement.
ROMATSA selected Mitsubishi Electric's terminal Doppler lidar system based on its high evaluation of the company's technology as well as its strong record of deliveries to major airports worldwide, the company said.
Mitsubishi Electric was previously awarded a terminal Doppler lidar contract for Nice Cote d'Azur Airport, making the Henri Coanda supply contract the company's second in Europe and 10th worldwide.
A terminal Doppler lidar transmits laser beams and then detects light backscattered by dust or other particles in the air, enabling the system to use the Doppler frequency shift in the backscattered light to make line-of-sight measurements of wind speed and direction. Using this data, hazardous phenomena such as wind shear and microbursts can be detected within observable ranges.