Scottish Wind Farm Work For FUGRO-BKSSpecialist spatial data solutions provider Fugro-BKS Ltd, a key component of Fugro Renewable Services, recently completed an airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) survey of five onshore wind farm sites near Caithness in Scotland
By: Fugro Renewables April 3, 2012 - PRLog -- Specialist spatial data solutions provider Fugro-BKS Ltd, a key component of Fugro Renewable Services, recently completed an airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) survey of five onshore wind farm sites near Caithness in Scotland for RES and Baillie Windfarm Ltd. They have also completed a more conventional topographic survey of another site near Aberdeen, this time for the JNP Group working on behalf of RES.
“Our recent airborne LiDAR assignment at Caithness presented lots of challenges,” “The survey was used to record the setting of one of the most important clusters of Neolithic funerary monuments in Caithness, at Cnoc Freiceadain, offering a unique view of the sites in their landscape context,” he adds. “Processing the data brought to light a large number of unrecorded features, greatly increasing the number of known hut circles in the area and redefining the extent of medieval and later settlement and agriculture. The data set therefore constitutes an invaluable research tool and an unparalleled means of preserving the landscape of twenty first century Caithness for future reference.” “We have seen a marked increase in the use of airborne LiDAR surveys for wind farm developments,” Project developers and consultants are increasing their use of geospatial information, such as the terrain data derived from LiDAR, in a variety of ways. Prior to construction it can be used for wind speed analysis, vegetation cover, roughness, and clearance, view shed analysis, slope stability analysis, access road design, and for environmental and archaeological assessments. This information is an invaluable aid for turbine location selection and volumetric calculations for crane pad construction, as well as providing corridor mapping for network grid connection and substation location selection. End
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