Satellite-based wind maps as guidance for siting offshore wind farms

Wind Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 327-338

  Furevik, B R ^a   Espedal, H A ^a   Hamre, T ^a   Hasager, C B ^b   Johannessen, O M ^a   Jorgensen B H ^b   Rathmann, O ^b  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

OFFSHORE WIND FARMS;

WIND;

FEASIBILITY STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; OFFSHORE APPLICATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND FARM; WIND FIELD; WIND MEASUREMENT;

FEASIBILITY STUDY; OFFSHORE APPLICATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND FIELD; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND POWER;

EID: 0347031182     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/030952403322770931     Document Type: Article

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