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The Front Cover

As a result of the rapid growth in the offshore wind sector, the demand for spatial environmental data is constantly increasing. Traditional visual aerial survey methods suffer from reliability, safety and data quality drawbacks. These can be overcome by new digital methods, and in the article on page 6 the author discuss the application of these new technologies to offshore aerial bird and mammal surveys. The image on the cover is an example of a high-resolution image collected while on survey. (courtesy APEM Limited).

Publisher's Note

Features

Advancing Technology for Environmental Assessment
By Stuart C. Clough, Director of Remote Sensing, APEM, UK

Wind Turbine Layout Optimisation
By Kalyan Veeramachaneni and Una-May O’Reilly, Evolutionary Design and Optimization Group, CSAIL, MIT, USA

Consolidation in the Wind Industry
By Philip Totaro, Principal, IntelStor, USA

Accurate Wind Measurements in Difficult Site Conditions
By Nic Wilson and Juha Paldanius, Vaisala, Germany

Column Nymbyism

Nimbyism and Wind Turbine Noise
By Tiff Thompson, Principal, NIMBY Consulting, USA

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