Lidar Without Limits

The WindCube® suite is the most recognized and includes the most trusted lidar solutions in the world.

WindCube Nacelle: New classification + enhancements

The industry’s go-to reference lidar for PPT just got better.

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WindCube Complex Terrain Ready Offering

Expand your possibilities with world-class technology and comprehensive support

Open Expand your possibilities with world-class technology and comprehensive support configuration options. The wind industry is expanding into more complex terrain as land in simpler terrain becomes less available.

Since wind flow isn’t uniform in complex terrain, modeling technologies ensure the data is accurate, reliable and bankable. Our WindCube Complex Terrain Ready offering gives you precise data in all types of complex terrain.

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SMARTER WIND ENERGY

People have harnessed the wind for centuries, and for countless applications. Today, the wind energy industry has inherited this tradition. It is filled with innovators who use the wind like no one before imagined, and the world is better for it.

Leosphere, a Vaisala company, is one of these innovators. As the iconic and trusted gold standard in wind lidar, our turnkey WindCube product suite offers innovative, reliable, and highly accurate solutions for thousands of customers across the globe.

Driven by relentless curiosity, we are creating a better world by empowering wind energy leaders, decision-makers, and researchers to create transformative change. We seek to be the steady champions of this industry, pushing it ever higher to everyone’s benefit.

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Wind development

With the WindCube suite, wind developers gain quality data and reduce the need for data extrapolation (an increasing challenge with met masts alone). Offshore, lidar has become critical — dramatically reducing cost and complexity while enabling wind measurement for even the largest turbines. Other applications in project development include:

Wind resource assessment: Provide quality data and bankable due diligence in almost any terrain and weather conditions, onshore or offshore
Optimizing wind farm layout and turbine choice: Inform turbine choice, optimizing important cost and risk factors
Wind monitoring: Ensure real-time wind awareness for successful construction and deployment

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Wind operations

Wind operators face common pressures for performance testing and optimization, and lidar is their secret weapon. WindCube ground-based and nacelle-mounted lidar technologies are rapidly improving how these important operations are conducted. Additional applications include:

Reliable contractual and operational PPT: Power curve data and compliant analysis
Nacelle instrument verification: Yaw misalignment and transfer function
Permanent monitoring of site conditions: Meeting grid operator reporting requirements, conducting wind monitoring for maintenance or upgrade operations

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Turbine manufacturing

Lidar is a perfect tool for validating designs and fueling innovation at the manufacturer level. It is standard equipment for many manufacturers, who use it to increase sales, achieve higher outputs, and reduce uncertainty.

IEC-compliant turbine testing, validation, and prototyping: Verify product performance or upgrades in real-world environments
Feedforward Lidar-Assisted Control: Bring new LAC functionality to market efficiently and cost-effectively

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A sustainable partner

In wind energy, the brightest scientists, creators, and innovators work to develop more affordable, clean energy. For decades, Vaisala products have provided exceptionally long service lives, reduced consumption and waste, and eliminated costly human travel and maintenance — all of which help wind energy leaders improve not just their business outcomes, but their communities as well.

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Ever Higher: How transformative technology, global leadership and unmatched service benefits.

Leosphere, a Vaisala Company: Who We Are

Explore our value as the only lidar provider provider anywhere with the resources, robust service plans and infrastructure, and turnkey options to take you into the future with certainty. Get the guide to our complete capabilities.

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Products and Services

WindCube

The industry’s most trusted, bankable, and widely-deployed vertical profiling lidar, ideal for today’s increasing rotor sizes and hub heights.

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WindCube Scan

Provides full, 360° wind awareness for a wide variety of applications – providing unmatched versatility and value over time.

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WindCube Offshore

WindCube vertical profiling lidar, ruggedized and optimized for buoys and other harsh offshore deployments.

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WindCube Nacelle

Industry-leading nacelle lidar can be deployed temporarily for operational PPT and optimization, or integrated by manufacturers for feedforward turbine control.

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WindCube Insights

Software providing full fleet visibility and management for WindCube, and IEC-compliant PPT for WindCube Nacelle.

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Applications

Offshore Wind Measurement

Make offshore wind farms not only technically feasible, but financially sound with single-source solutions for almost any need in offshore development and operations.

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Wind Resource Assessment

Wind resource assessment is a crucial, pressure-filled stage. Go beyond legacy technologies to capture the reliable, accurate data you need.

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Power Performance Testing

Simplify this traditionally difficult process with WindCube nacelle-mounted lidar and a revolutionary software analytics tool.

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Performance Optimization

Achieve continuous gains in power capture and system performance using the industry’s most versatile lidar suite.

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Wake & Forecasting

Lidar is creating new opportunities for proactively improving energy capture and system reliability.

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Feedforward Turbine Control

Embrace Lidar-Assisted Control (LAC) at scale, optimizing energy capture and setting your turbine portfolio apart.

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Magazine Article: Leveraging nacelle-mounted lidar for power performance testing

As turbines grow in stature, power performance testing and verification become even more important, with underperformance equating to reduced power output and lost revenue. Can nacelle-mounted lidar, with its flexible measurement range, provide a complete testing solution?

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