Blogs and cases
Blogs and customer cases
WindCube enhancements: Key highlights, including Factory Validation with a Golden lidar by DNV
- Renewable energy
- Weather & Environment
- Wind energy
Earlier this year, we announced measurement enhancements and new service capabilities for the WindCube® vertical profiling lidar. We reviewed...
Improved volcanic ash detection at La Palma Airport
- Aviation
The ceilometer’s small form factor and ease of setup meant that the AEMET team could locate it where it was most scientifically valuable.
The use cases for dual scanning lidar: answers to your questions
- Renewable energy
- Weather & Environment
- Wind energy
With the recent WindCube® Scan Dual Lidar Ready announcement and associated webinar , we have received many questions from wind energy players...
Hyperlocal air quality monitoring network
- Weather & Environment
Lahti installed two Vaisala Beam Stations, each one featuring the Vaisala Air Quality Transmitter AQT530 and Weather Transmitter WXT536.
WPD: Reducing uncertainty, reducing costs
- Renewable energy
- Weather & Environment
- Wind energy
Creating a strategic offshore wind resource assessment (WRA) campaign with scanning lidar Germany-based wpd plans and operates wind projects...
Robust science – or what makes our technology different
- Power Generation and Transmission
At Vaisala, everything we do is based on scientific knowledge, exploring the new, and uncovering what cannot be seen by human senses alone. This...
Comparing WindCube lidars to met masts for PPT
- Renewable energy
- Weather & Environment
- Wind energy
A real-world, concurrent validation study The challenge: Validate lidar performance relative to met masts for contractual power curve testing A...
Maximizing indoor farming potential by controlling costs with accurate measurement
- Greenhouses and Indoor Farming
Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), including vertical farms, container farms, aeroponics, and aquaculture, is attracting entrepreneurs...
Powering wind energy in France
- Renewable energy
- Weather & Environment
AKROCEAN uses WindCube Offshore to enable new offshore development Project details Location: South Brittany, France Lidar type/setup: 2x buoy...
Offshore wind development is booming
- Maritime
- Weather & Environment
How to secure more reliable weather window estimates for efficient and safe offshore wind farm installations? Offshore wind development is...
Optimizing for better winter road maintenance in Sweden
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
Svevia is the leading road and infrastructure provider in Sweden, maintaining thousands of kilometers of roads. The organization has over 1,900...
Gold medal lightning
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
No, Usain Bolt is still retired, but he does have one child named Thunder and one named Olympia Lightning. We are, however, just a few weeks...
Pyrocumulonimbus event in British Columbia, Canada
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
Just a day after a new all-time record high for Canada of 49.5°C was set in Lytton, British Columbia, numerous wildfires blazed across the...
Empower your city’s decision-makers with air quality insights
- Weather & Environment
Air quality is an essential factor in creating smarter, healthier communities. This is due in part to the urgency of air quality problems, but...
How to Qualify a Vaccine Thermal Shipping Container
- Life Science
Over the last 20 years, there has been a new regulatory focus on Good Distribution Practices, which prescribe how regulated products should be...
Diversity and inclusion boost innovation
- Corporate
In June, many people and organizations all over the world have celebrated Pride month, and Pride week is currently taking place in Finland...
Efficient on-site Wind Resource Assessment for off-shore
- Renewable energy
- Weather & Environment
- Wind energy
Efficient on-site Wind Resource Assessment (WRA) for offshore wind development How Mainstream Renewable Power is conducting more accurate...
The role of lightning detection networks
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
Lightning detection networks have been around since the early 1980s, so what could possibly be new? Plenty. As technology advances in...
Lightning by the numbers
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
If a thunderstorm has only 25 cloud-to-ground flashes, is it really that dangerous? What if it has 250, 2,500, 25,000? Does more lightning in a...
Lidar proves itself in South America
- Renewable energy
- Weather & Environment
- Wind energy
Using several WindCube technologies for Wind Resource Assessment and Power Performance Testing In Latin, ventus means wind, and the name is a...