Développement des techniques spatiales de cartographie du potentiel éolien offshore et côtier par imagerie radarsat : cas du golfe du St-Laurent

This paper document the usefulness of offshore and coastal wind maps from satellite techniques. As a step before metering programs, remote sensing approaches are gaining much interest, especially for offshore analysis. As an intermediate approach, it gives first estimates of the best wind sites. In...

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Autores principales: Julien Choisnard, Gaétan Lafrance, Monique Bernier
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:e0bc25cc631c4fbe8a3c9a3c1ca2bac02021-12-02T10:01:08ZDéveloppement des techniques spatiales de cartographie du potentiel éolien offshore et côtier par imagerie radarsat : cas du golfe du St-Laurent1492-844210.4000/vertigo.4001https://doaj.org/article/e0bc25cc631c4fbe8a3c9a3c1ca2bac02004-05-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/4001https://doaj.org/toc/1492-8442This paper document the usefulness of offshore and coastal wind maps from satellite techniques. As a step before metering programs, remote sensing approaches are gaining much interest, especially for offshore analysis. As an intermediate approach, it gives first estimates of the best wind sites. In the complex coastal area of St-Lawrence gulf, strong effects of local topography characterize wind fields and the wind resource assessment is challenging. Wind fields are extracted from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) scenes provided by the RADARSAT-1 satellite and from QuickSCAT scatterometer collocated wind direction. The spatial resolution of such a technique is around 400 m covering wide region until 300 by 300 km. Among interesting findings, it appears that a relative small sample of scenes can already indicates the best spots to investigate for further analysis. Accuracy of the method is evaluated at 1.5 m/s offshore and around 2 m/s close to the shore.Julien ChoisnardGaétan LafranceMonique BernierÉditions en environnement VertigOarticlecoastaloffshoreRADARSAT-1remote sensingspatial wind variabilitywind resourceEnvironmental sciencesGE1-350FRVertigO, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2004)
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topic coastal
offshore
RADARSAT-1
remote sensing
spatial wind variability
wind resource
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
spellingShingle coastal
offshore
RADARSAT-1
remote sensing
spatial wind variability
wind resource
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
Julien Choisnard
Gaétan Lafrance
Monique Bernier
Développement des techniques spatiales de cartographie du potentiel éolien offshore et côtier par imagerie radarsat : cas du golfe du St-Laurent
description This paper document the usefulness of offshore and coastal wind maps from satellite techniques. As a step before metering programs, remote sensing approaches are gaining much interest, especially for offshore analysis. As an intermediate approach, it gives first estimates of the best wind sites. In the complex coastal area of St-Lawrence gulf, strong effects of local topography characterize wind fields and the wind resource assessment is challenging. Wind fields are extracted from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) scenes provided by the RADARSAT-1 satellite and from QuickSCAT scatterometer collocated wind direction. The spatial resolution of such a technique is around 400 m covering wide region until 300 by 300 km. Among interesting findings, it appears that a relative small sample of scenes can already indicates the best spots to investigate for further analysis. Accuracy of the method is evaluated at 1.5 m/s offshore and around 2 m/s close to the shore.
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author Julien Choisnard
Gaétan Lafrance
Monique Bernier
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Monique Bernier
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title Développement des techniques spatiales de cartographie du potentiel éolien offshore et côtier par imagerie radarsat : cas du golfe du St-Laurent
title_short Développement des techniques spatiales de cartographie du potentiel éolien offshore et côtier par imagerie radarsat : cas du golfe du St-Laurent
title_full Développement des techniques spatiales de cartographie du potentiel éolien offshore et côtier par imagerie radarsat : cas du golfe du St-Laurent
title_fullStr Développement des techniques spatiales de cartographie du potentiel éolien offshore et côtier par imagerie radarsat : cas du golfe du St-Laurent
title_full_unstemmed Développement des techniques spatiales de cartographie du potentiel éolien offshore et côtier par imagerie radarsat : cas du golfe du St-Laurent
title_sort développement des techniques spatiales de cartographie du potentiel éolien offshore et côtier par imagerie radarsat : cas du golfe du st-laurent
publisher Éditions en environnement VertigO
publishDate 2004
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