Doppler LIDAR Wind Ranger | PCS.2000-24 + LIDAR Trailer
The Doppler Wind Lidar product family comprises compact, cost-effective and easy-to-use instruments for vertical determination of the 3D wind vector and turbulence quantities. They perform continuous VAD scans of the laser beam at a zenith angle of 10 degrees. The maximum scanner movement is 2 revolutions per second. While the Wind Ranger 100/200 uses a special FM-CW method for the lower 200 metres measurement height and thus allows measurement heights as low as 7 metres above ground, the Wind Ranger BL uses a pulsed transmission signal and determines the respective measurement heights from the runtime of the received signal.
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For mobile wind measurements with high requirements, e.g. in the wind energy sector, trailers are available for stand-alone or grid-connected use, which accommodates both a Doppler SODAR of type PCS.2000-24 and a Doppler LIDAR (Wind Ranger, Streamline). The involved measuring techniques complement each other ideally in terms of data accuracy and data availability: the LIDAR method provides the higher measuring accuracy, while the SODAR method also works in fog, very low-hanging clouds or other severe visibility restrictions.