Open AccessWide Area Wind Field Monitoring Status & Results
Author(s) -
Alan Marchant,
Jed A. Simmons
Publication year - 2011
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/1035563
Subject(s) - lidar , aerosol , volume (thermodynamics) , environmental science , remote sensing , wind power , field (mathematics) , meteorology , geology , geography , engineering , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , electrical engineering
Volume-scanning elastic has been investigated as a means to derive 3D dynamic wind fields for characterization and monitoring of wind energy sites. An eye-safe volume-scanning lidar system was adapted for volume imaging of aerosol concentrations out to a range of 300m. Reformatting of the lidar data as dynamic volume images was successfully demonstrated. A practical method for deriving 3D wind fields from dynamic volume imagery was identified and demonstrated. However, the natural phenomenology was found to provide insufficient aerosol features for reliable wind sensing. The results of this study may be applicable to wind field measurement using injected aerosol tracers