A new motion compensation algorithm of floating lidar system for the assessment of turbulence intensity

Abstract

In this study, a new motion compensation algorithm was proposed and verified by using numerical simulation. Compensated horizontal mean wind speed by using conventional method shows good agreement with reference wind speed regardless of the motion of the floater. However, turbulence intensity is always overestimated. The overestimation is more significant when the maximum pitch angle of the floater motion is larger. When proposed method is used, the overestimation of the turbulent intensity is improved and estimated turbulent intensity shows better agreement with reference value. There still remains underestimation of the turbulence intensity with the bias of -1.1%. This is probably caused by the low sampling frequency in LIDAR measurement and further research is needed to model the high frequency component of the wind speed for LIDAR measurement.