Simplified Formulae for the Estimation of Offshore Wind Turbines Clutter on Marine Radars
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Authors
Jenn, David
Grande, Olatz
Cañizo, Josune
Angulo, Itziar
Danoon, Laith R.
Guerra, David
de la Vega, David
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Date of Issue
2014-03-17
Date
March 17, 2014
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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Abstract
The potential impact that offshore wind farms may cause on nearby marine radars should be considered before the wind farm is
installed. Strong radar echoes from the turbines may degrade radars’ detection capability in the area around the wind farm.Although
conventional computational methods provide accurate results of scattering by wind turbines, they are not directly implementable
in software tools that can be used to conduct the impact studies. This paper proposes a simple model to assess the clutter that wind
turbines may generate on marine radars. This method can be easily implemented in the system modeling software tools for the
impact analysis of a wind farm in a real scenario.
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Article
Description
The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/982508
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Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Sponsors
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Project TEC2012-32370)
Basque Government (SAIOTEK program)
Basque Government (SAIOTEK program)
Funder
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Project TEC2012-32370)
Basque Government (SAIOTEK program)
Basque Government (SAIOTEK program)
Format
12 p.
Citation
Grande, Olatz, et al. "Simplified formulae for the estimation of offshore wind turbines clutter on marine radars." The Scientific World Journal 2014 (2014).
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.