SAR-based wind resource statistics in the Baltic Sea

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 117-144

  Hasager, Charlotte B ^a   Badger, Merete ^a   Peña, Alfredo ^a   Larsén, Xiaoli G ^a   Bingöl, Ferhat ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Offshore wind; Satellite SAR; Wind energy; Wind resource

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR IMAGING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STATISTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; OFFSHORE WINDS; SATELLITE SAR; SATELLITE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; SCALE AND SHAPE PARAMETERS; WIND RESOURCES;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

EID: 80051889744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3010117     Document Type: Article

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