As you know by now, One Energy has various ways of capturing weather and wind data. In the last few Science Shorts, we explained our weather station, MET pole, and the instrumentation used to measure wind. Today, follow along as Erica explains another tool we use: the LiDAR unit!
LiDAR stands for Light Detection and Ranging. LiDARs are relatively small, portable instruments, which come in handy when we need to measure wind data at a potential customer’s site: instead of installing a tall MET pole, we can transport a smaller, more mobile LiDAR unit!
Watch as Erica explains how these units capture data using light beams and lasers along with atmospheric aerosols – and find out which instances One Energy chooses to deploy a LiDAR unit over other ways of obtaining wind data.
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