ORE Catapult's facilities are a significant enabler to accessing the UK's vast offshore resources.
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As wind farms continue to be deployed further offshore and into deeper waters with increasingly challenging conditions, ORE Catapult’s offshore anemometry platform enables clients to test, calibrate and validate remote sensor technologies in a representative Round 3 environment.
Clients can prove reliability, data availability and performance, as well as evaluate environmental conditions, observe marine conditions and collect wildlife data for R&D purposes.
- Hosting floating lidar trials
- Data licensing for wind and ocean conditions
- Consenting and permitting
- Project support
- Collaborative R&D projects
- SME product development support
- Hosting instrumentation and monitoring of new equipment
- Providing third-party validation reports
Lidar Verification
Wood’s Galion lidar undergoing testing at Levenmouth.
Our onshore met mast at Levenmouth enables the testing, calibration and verification of onshore lidar systems. With access to high-quality wind resources and environmental data, developers and manufacturers can compare and verify new remote sensing techniques against traditional methods. Contact our Data and Digital team to find out more.
NOAH Offshore Anemometry Platform
Located 3nm off the coast of Blyth, Northumberland, the National Offshore Anemometry Hub (NOAH) providing wind resource and environmental data to validate new remote sensing techniques.
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