Abstract
During the last few decades, remote sensing devices have established themselves as reliable and effective tools for the measurement of the wind speed. The early applications focused mainly on radar (radio detecting and ranging), but afterward the developed knowledge and principles were transferred to Doppler lidar (light detection and ranging) as well. Lidar uses infrared laser to remotely retrieve a wind speed estimate along the line-of-sight of its emitted laser beam, by relying on the Doppler effect. Lidar has many different applications nowadays, ranging from simple commercial site assessment and power curve measurement to dedicated research on wind field reconstruction methodologies and the application to wind turbine control. This chapter on Doppler lidar inflow measurements attempts to both explain the basic Doppler lidar principles and, at the same time, shed a light on the currently common industrial applications as well as the current academic research.
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van Dooren, M.F. (2021). Doppler Lidar Inflow Measurements. In: Stoevesandt, B., Schepers, G., Fuglsang, P., Yuping, S. (eds) Handbook of Wind Energy Aerodynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05455-7_35-1
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