The floating Lidar during the typhoon.A floating Lidar system designed to gather offshore wind data continued to successfully operate while deployed during a typhoon.
Details just released reveal how the buoy containing the Lidar (light detection and ranging) device continued working while in the midst of extreme conditions during typhoon Hinnamnor, which hit Japan and South Korea last September and became the first category-5 storm of 2022.
The Floating Lidar EOLOS device was deployed off Jindo, on the southern coast of South Korea, and recorded wind gusts of 125km/hr and wave heights of 11m.
The EOLOS FLS200 – developed by Spanish firm EOLOS and ZX Lidars from the UK – was deployed in support of offshore wind developments in the region.
The buoy features an integrated ZX 300M wind Lidar has been purposely designed exclusively for the needs of the offshore wind industry, which the companies state ensures proper dynamics for wind measurements up to 300m above sea level even in the most challenging conditions.
