Wind Energy Applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar
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Alternative data sources include scatterometry (Monaldo et al. 2004), or atmospheric model predictions (Monaldo et al. 2001). Figure 1 shows a wind speed map retrieved from an Envisat ASAR image acquired in wide swath mode (WSM) over Denmark on 13 October 2004. The image conveniently covers the majority of Danish Seas. A software tool developed at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) was used for the image processing (Monaldo, 2000). Wind vectors were obtained from the Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS).
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