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4 Introduction to continuous-wave<br />

Doppler lidar 72<br />

4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72<br />

4.2 Basic principles of lidar operation and system description . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />

4.2.1 Brief survey of lidar types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />

4.2.2 Principles underlying anemometry by coherent laser radar (CLR) . . . 73<br />

4.2.3 Role of local oscillator and range selection by focus . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />

4.2.4 Doppler frequency analysis and signal processing . . . . . . . . . . . 74<br />

4.2.5 Wind profiling in conical scan mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75<br />

4.2.6 Pioneering a revolution: ZephIR lidar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75<br />

4.3 Lidar measurement process: Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76<br />

4.3.1 Behaviour of scattering particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77<br />

4.3.2 Uniformity of flow and backscatter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77<br />

4.3.3 Beam positional accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77<br />

4.3.4 Optical and electrical interference sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77<br />

4.3.5 Time-of-flight considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />

4.4 End-to-end measurement process for CW Doppler lidar . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />

4.4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />

4.4.2 Transmitter optics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />

4.4.3 Light scattering by aerosols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79<br />

4.4.4 Receiver optics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80<br />

4.4.5 Light beating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80<br />

4.4.6 Photodetection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81<br />

4.4.7 Fourier analysis and lidar sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81<br />

4.4.8 Velocity estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83<br />

4.5 Ground based, vertical scan configuration wind field parameter determination 84<br />

4.5.1 Least-squares fitting routine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84<br />

4.5.2 Parameter extraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85<br />

4.5.3 Data averaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85<br />

4.6 Uncertainty analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85<br />

4.6.1 Rain/snow/cloud, solid objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85<br />

4.6.2 Cloud effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86<br />

4.6.3 System positioning accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88<br />

4.6.4 Probe volume effects and operation at greater heights . . . . . . . . 89<br />

4.6.5 Flow uniformity and complex terrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89<br />

4.6.6 Dependence on backscatter level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90<br />

4.6.7 Beam obscuration and attenuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90<br />

4.6.8 Wind direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90<br />

4.7 Calibration, validation and traceability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91<br />

4.8 Turbine mounted continuous wave lidar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92<br />

4.8.1 Least-squaresfittingroutine forhorizontalscanning(turbine mounted)<br />

operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93<br />

4.8.2 Turbine mounted CW lidar for wind turbine power curve measurement 94<br />

4.9 Summary, state of the art, and future developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96<br />

Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100<br />

Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100<br />

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101<br />

5 Pulsed lidars 104<br />

5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104<br />

5.2 End-to-end description of pulsed lidar measurement process . . . . . . . . . . 105<br />

5.2.1 Architecture of pulsed lidars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105<br />

5.2.2 Differences between pulsed vs. continuous wave lidars . . . . . . . . . 107<br />

5.2.3 Signal processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108<br />

<strong>DTU</strong> Wind Energy-E-Report-0029(EN) 5

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