Understanding Wind Measurement Technologies
If you are selecting a wind measurement system for a project do you actually know which platform is matched to your specific terrain and measurement objective, or are you working from a general sense that any good lidar will do the job? If your site involves complex topography, have you considered that the wind measurement approach that works on flat open land can give you dangerously incomplete data in hilly or coastal environments? These are the real decisions that wind energy developers, meteorologists, and civil aviation safety teams navigate when evaluating a coherent doppler wind lidar platform, and the choice between available systems is not as interchangeable as it might first appear. Here are the foundations: Ground-Based Wind LiDAR The Ground-based Wind LiDAR is developed specifically to replace traditional wind measurement towers for wind power customers. It detects wind speed and direction profiles continuously, all-weather, around the clock,...