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US 8,804,998 B2Granted
Method to determine a site for a wind turbine
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorJason Stege
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Abstract
According to the method an unmanned aerial vehicle is guided along a predetermined flight path. The flight-path is chosen in a way that high resolution images of the surrounding of a potential wind turbine site are gathered by the unmanned aerial vehicle. The images are used to obtain an actual digital surface model of the surrounding of the potential wind turbine site. The potential wind turbine site is evaluated based on the actual digital surface model to determine, if the potential wind turbine site is an optimum wind turbine site.
Claims11
A method to determine a site for a wind turbine, comprising
- guiding an unmanned aerial vehicle along a predetermined flight path, which is chosen in a way that high resolution images of the surrounding of a potential wind turbine site are gathered by the unmanned aerial vehicle,
- obtaining, at least by the high resolution images, an actual digital surface model of the surrounding of the potential wind turbine site wherein the images are used to obtain an actual digital surface model of the potential wind turbine site, and
- evaluating the potential wind turbine site based on the actual digital surface model to determine when the potential wind turbine site is an optimum wind turbine site.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.