About the project
SSwiFT Wind aims to advance offshore wind assessment by developing and validating a multi-LiDAR floating system that integrates a scanning pulsed LiDAR with a vertical profiler. The project seeks to expand wind measurement capabilities, enabling spatially distributed, high-resolution wind field characterisation for modern large offshore wind farms. Its objectives include enhancing the scanning LiDAR’s performance, integrating both LiDARs into a modular buoy, validating the system in real offshore conditions, and developing advanced numerical models for turbulence, wake effects, and wind flow reconstruction. Ultimately, SSwiFT Wind supports improved energy yield, reduced uncertainties, better wind farm layouts, predictive modelling of interfarm wakes, and more efficient operation of future offshore wind plants.