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Offshore Winds Observed from Space |
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Friday, 07 July 2006 |
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Issues for Planning of Offshore Wind Farms  Satellites orbiting and observing Earth offer potential for the offshore wind farm industry. Of particular interest are the images from the Synthetic Aperture Radars (SAR) on board satellites belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA): the satellites ERS-1 and ERS-2 from 1992 to present and Envisat from 2002 to present. In the April/May 2005 issue of Windtech International we published an article about this topic. The current article describes more specific issues concerning offshore wind farms. By Merete Bruun Christiansen, Charlotte Bay Hasager, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark and Frank Monaldo, Johns Hopkins University, USA
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