ZX Lidars has successfully demonstrated the use of a drone-mounted lidar to measure wind resources.
The company said the measurements were made last summer using a commercially-available unmanned aerial vehicle or drone for demonstration purposes.
The trial provided “excellent data rates and sensitivity”, ZX Lidars said.
ZX Lidars managing director Ian Locker said: “ZX Lidars is a pioneer of wind lidar technology – we were the first on turbines, the first offshore… now we’re the first to fly on a small drone.
“This and other trials conducted since 2015 only stand to further confirm that our core technology is accurate, reliable and robust lending itself perfectly to a range of applications such as drone wind lidar.”
The company said the results of the trial will be presented at the Wind Energy Science Conference 2019 in Cork, Ireland, in June.