Blogs and cases
Blogs and customer cases
Senja Leivo appointed as a member of CIGRE Study Committee
- Power Generation and Transmission
Vaisala’s Senja Leivo has been appointed as a member of one of the Study Committees in CIGRE, the Council on Large Electric Systems. CIGRE is...
Increase biogas revenues with accurate methane volume calculation
- Biogas Production
Making biogas production profitable as quickly as possible is typically one of the most important factors when starting up or developing a...
A wider field of awareness: Why airports are adopting X-band radar
- Aviation
- Weather & Environment
Immediately after departure and before landing, aircraft are especially vulnerable to the weather. After takeoff, they are starting to climb to...
Do I need an Indigo transmitter or just an Indigo probe?
- Greenhouses and Indoor Farming
- Industrial Manufacturing and Processes
- Industrial Measurements
- Innovations and Inspirations
- Life Science
- Sustainability
The Vaisala Indigo family is a modular solution with interchangeable probes, smart transmitters, and Indigo Insight PC software. There are many...
Where’s all my lightning?
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
Among the sights and sounds of summer are lightning and thunder. They are wedded with our culture, so much so, that in places with higher...
Video Q&A: Guidance documents, references, and advice for warehouse mapping
- Life Science
In this video, we answer questions we didn’t have time for during our June webinar “Continuous Mapping in Warehouses: Better Data, Better...
Making your own thunderstorm (do NOT try this at home!)
- Weather & Environment
- Meteorology
Note to readers: Thunderstorms are dangerous and creating your own would be a foolhardy effort. The method of thunderstorm manufacturing we are...
The effect of vaporized hydrogen peroxide on dew point
- Industrial Manufacturing and Processes
- Life Science
In bio-decontamination applications that use vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VH 2 O 2 ), it can be useful to know when condensation will occur...
How lidar is expanding wind energy, one site at a time
- Renewable energy
The challenge: Conduct wind resource assessments in promising, hard-to-assess locations Meventus is a renewable energy consultancy with offices...
Predictive Maintenance with Oil Moisture Measurement
- Industrial Manufacturing and Processes
- Industrial Measurements
Moisture is a known contaminant in a wide variety of applications and processes, but the presence of moisture in industrial use oil can be...
To launch or not to launch: the impact of weather on space launches
- Space exploration
- Weather & Environment
- Meteorology
- Innovations and Inspirations
Space launches, such as the upcoming launch of the Perseverance rover currently scheduled for July 30, are precise and expensive missions, where...
Out-of-spec sensors, incubator hot/cold spots & 21 CFR Part 11 compliance
- Life Science
Edited transcript below In this video interview, Vaisala Senior Regulatory Expert answers three questions from customers and industry contacts...
Build, test, repeat – assembling space equipment is manual work
- Space exploration
- Innovations and Inspirations
Years of work in the manufacture of measuring instruments will come to an important crossroads when the equipment is launched by rocket to its...
Road weather forecasting
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
In our previous blog post , we focused on how weather impacts road users and their safety. One key conclusion: Combining today’s connected car...
South Asian Lightning Network SALNet initiated
- Weather & Environment
- Meteorology
The South Asia Lightning Network (SALNet) was initiated in a remarkable first meeting on June 25 - 26. This meeting of lightning interests in...
Marching out to Mars! Why are researchers interested in the red planet?
- Innovations and Inspirations
- Space exploration
The Earth's neighbour, Mars, is an enticing research subject for atmospheric researchers: the atmosphere of this barren planet is like a...
How does Vaisala detect lightning?
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
How can Vaisala detect lightning around the world ? How can sensors at a small number of locations detect lightning so far away? Angles and...
Shelters from the storm: How wind lidar is keeping ports safe and operational
- Maritime
- Weather & Environment
(For more, see "Ports in a Storm," co-authored by Ludovic Thobois and Remy Parmentier of Leosphere, a Vaisala company, in Meteorological...
Managing megacities: How scanning lidar is protecting increasingly city-bound populations
- Meteorology
(For more, see "City Limits," co-authored by Ludovic Thobois and Remy Parmentier of Vaisala, in Meteorological Technology International.) With...
Lightning safety around the world
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
Huge amounts of lightning occur around the world, and over two billion lightning events have been detected each of the last five years! These...