Simplified formulae for the estimation of offshore wind turbines clutter on marine radars.
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.
Department of Communications Engineering, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Alda. Urquijo s/n, 48013 Bilbao, Spain.
Olatz
O
Grande
Department of Communications Engineering, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Alda. Urquijo s/n, 48013 Bilbao, Spain.
Josune
J
Cañizo
Department of Communications Engineering, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Alda. Urquijo s/n, 48013 Bilbao, Spain.
Itziar
0000-0002-7855-3516
I
Angulo
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943, USA.
David
D
Jenn
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester, Sackville Street Building, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Laith R
LR
Danoon
Department of Communications Engineering, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Alda. Urquijo s/n, 48013 Bilbao, Spain.
David
D
Guerra
Department of Communications Engineering, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Alda. Urquijo s/n, 48013 Bilbao, Spain.
David
0000-0003-4811-4173
D
de la Vega
D000465:Algorithms; D016477:Artifacts; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D011825:Radar; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012984:Software; D014919:Wind