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October 12th, 2011
Lidar Maps Potential of Wind Farms in 3-D

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Before renewable utilities build offshore wind farms, engineers must scrutinize the wind field at a proposed site using light detection and ranging (lidar) systems — an optical remote-sensing technology that illuminates a target with pulses from a laser. To overcome limitations in the current standard lidar systems that make measurements of vertical wind profiles, Dr. Herrington from the Stevens Institute of Technology and his colleagues are pioneering the use of scanning lidar that measures the wind field in three dimensions out to 20 nautical miles offshore. Read More