Remote Sensing (Oct 2016)

Long-Range WindScanner System

  • Nikola Vasiljević,
  • Guillaume Lea,
  • Michael Courtney,
  • Jean-Pierre Cariou,
  • Jakob Mann,
  • Torben Mikkelsen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8110896
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 11
p. 896

Abstract

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The technical aspects of a multi-Doppler LiDAR instrument, the long-range WindScanner system, are presented accompanied by an overview of the results from several field campaigns. The long-range WindScanner system consists of three spatially-separated, scanning coherent Doppler LiDARs and a remote master computer that coordinates them. The LiDARs were carefully engineered to perform user-defined and time-controlled scanning trajectories. Their wireless coordination via the master computer allows achieving and maintaining the LiDARs’ synchronization within ten milliseconds. The long-range WindScanner system measures the wind field by emitting and directing three laser beams to intersect, and then scanning the beam intersection over a region of interest. The long-range WindScanner system was developed to tackle the need for high-quality observations of wind fields on scales of modern wind turbine and wind farms. It has been in operation since 2013.

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