Estimation method for offshore wind energy using synthetic aperture radar and weibull parameters

Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 419-423

  Kozai, Katsutoshi ^a   Ohsawa, Teruo ^a   Takahashi, Rinya ^a   Takeyama, Yuko ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

CMOD4; ENVISAT ASAR; Offshore wind energy; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

CMOD4; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENERGY DENSITY; ENVISAT; ESTIMATION METHODS; IN-SITU; MEAN WIND SPEED; OFF-SHORE WIND ENERGY; OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY RESOURCE; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; WEIBULL PARAMETERS; WIND SPEED;

ENERGY RESOURCES; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND EFFECTS;

WIND POWER;

EID: 74549118211     PISSN: 10986189     EISSN: 15551792     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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