Thursday, April 23, 2015

3D Volume Scans

Over the last three days, the four 200S lidars and HRDL were engaged in testing various configurations of volume scans to measure and visualize flow behind a wind turbine.  With this goal, the following two configurations were tested.

1. Small box pattern:
This pattern has a high update rate of once every 15 sec.  It envelops a small volume of 100mX100m and from 30m above ground to 130m above ground.  This pattern is focused on producing retrievals just behind or ahead of a wind turbine.

2. Medium box pattern:
This pattern covers a slightly larger volume of approx 400mX400m and from surface to 200m above the ground with ~15m vertical resolution at each of the scan intersections.  Due to the larger area coverage the update rate is reduced to once every 1 min.



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