Wind sensing with drone-mounted wind lidars: proof of concept

Vasiljević, Nikola; Harris, Michael; Tegtmeier Pedersen, Anders; Rolighed Thorsen, Gunhild; Pitter, Mark; Harris, Jane; Bajpai, Kieran; Courtney, Michael

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-521-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-521-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-521-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

Research article

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07 Feb 2020

Research article |

| 07 Feb 2020

Wind sensing with drone-mounted wind lidars: proof of concept

Nikola Vasiljević, Michael Harris, Anders Tegtmeier Pedersen, Gunhild Rolighed Thorsen, Mark Pitter, Jane Harris, Kieran Bajpai, and Michael Courtney

Data sets

Drone-based wind lidar proof-of-concept measurements N. Vasiljevic, M. Harris, A. Tegtmeier Pedersen, G. Rolighed Thorsen, M. Rasmussen, C. B. Munk Pedersen, P. Hansen, and M. Courtney https://doi.org/10.11583/DTU.11743080

Short summary

In this paper we present the preliminary results of the proof-of-concept (POC) stage of a drone-based wind lidar system development process. To test the POC drone–lidar system we hovered the drone next to mast-mounted sonic anemometers at the Risø test center. The preliminary results of the intercomparison between the measurements derived from the POC system and those of the sonic anemometers show good agreement.