Renewable energy consultancy firm SgurrEnergy has introduced a new wind data measurement and acquisition system called Galion Lidar, which allows multiple wind turbine locations to be surveyed from a single deployment.
Galion's pulsed laser technology eliminates cloud ambiguities evident in other systems. The portable device captures high-resolution data to at least 2 kilometers. Its steerable laser beam enables scan geometrics that achieve accurate measurements in complex and forested terrain.
Galion Lidar is remote sensing technology that captures data for potential wind farms. A pulsed laser beam is emitted from the device to remotely measure wind, speed, direction, flow inclination, turbulence and shear.
‘The Galion's all-sky scanning capability, pulsed laser technology and massively extended range enable it to operate effectively in the complex and forested terrains typical of upland wind farms where other devices fail,’ says Peter Clive, SgurrEnergy's technical development consultant. ‘In doing so, it overcomes what many have seen as the final hurdle for the unqualified acceptance of Lidar data in the wind power industry. As such, it represents the next generation of Lidar, and the future of Lidar in wind power applications.’
The Galion Lidar is currently undergoing a series of independent tests, and the technology will be available for sale in early 2009.
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SOURCE: SgurrEnergy
