Synthetic Aperture Radar for Offshore Wind Resource Assessment and Wind Farm Development in the UK
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The UK has an abundant offshore wind resource with offshore wind set to grow rapidly over the coming years. Optimisation of energy production is of the utmost importance given the high installation and maintenance costs of offshore turbines; accurate estimates of wind speed characteristics are critical during the planning process. While operational assessment methods which rely upon in-situ observations or flow models do little to explore the spatial variability of the wind resource, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data from platforms such as ERS 1/ 2 and ENVISAT can provide wind field speed estimates at a spatial resolution of a few km 2 accurate to within ±2 m/s.
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