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    Sea Technology Magazine Whitepaper Scanning Lidar Evan Osler May 2016

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    Vassiliki Katsirou
    Wind Resource

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    Measuring Offshore Wind Resources How Scanning Lidar Improves Resource Assessment at Sea ty fan Osler 0 select the righ othore wind site, estimate the fo: ture energy output ofa wine farm, an deerme the bes layout forthe tuines, project developers must con= duct wind resouten assessment (WRA) campaigns on ste ‘his aerial phase ofthe successful development of wind tar ‘WRA campaign on terrestrial sts have traditionally ‘been performed vsirg meteorological towers equipped with wind and weather sonsor, whieh record dat for at Toast one year to lp characterize longer wind cond tions. nthe ream offshore wind energy development, however, convention! mes towers are bth prohibitively expensive to instal and extrema time consuming to pet Int Furthermore as fxed point measurements, they pres nt bath a challenge in spatial represanatvenes (nce a Ingle met tower tically canna represent the potenti wind resource vara ina large ashore project ite) {nd in longterm vale since a met tower located in the Imiddle of 2 fture turbine aay becomes fr less wsefl 4352 meteorological reterence once the wind am isl thanks to wakes om adjacent wind dines duping the wind resource toe measured. In recent years, Moating ido buoys that profile ve. tically have gained signieanttracion as low-cost and ‘quick to-deply alternatives to conventional shore met ‘ower. At typically 19 percent of the costo an ofshore met tower lidar buoys are quite often now the prefered ‘Choice for france ade wind data collection in ofsore ‘environmen: Meanwhile, many ofshore wind develop- ‘er enoowe to couple both technologies met tower and Floating Idar—and ake advantage of the unique beneis reac. ‘Alongside the inceasd deployment and industy ac

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