TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact Modelling of Offshore Wind Farms Near Safety Radars onboard Oil and Gas Platforms
AU - Danoon, Laith
AU - Mashhadani, Waleed Al
AU - Brown, Anthony
PY - 2017/10/5
Y1 - 2017/10/5
N2 - Radar Early Warning Systems (REWS) are typically installed onboard offshore Oil and Gas (O&G) platforms to monitor nearby surface traffic to provide asset and personnel protection and management. Wind turbines near REWS can interfere with the system due to their large and varying returns, which could mask nearby targets and increase the detection threshold causing loss of detection of targets of interest. Also, the REWS performance can be affected by the radar shadows from turbines and overloading of the track table. This paper highlights some of the key parameters for the modelling of the potential interference on REWS. This paper will also present some modelling result for generic wind turbines nearfield scattering, simplified shadowing effects and the impact of turbines return on the detection threshold. Finally a scenario to illustrate the compound effects on the REWS detection performance is presented.
AB - Radar Early Warning Systems (REWS) are typically installed onboard offshore Oil and Gas (O&G) platforms to monitor nearby surface traffic to provide asset and personnel protection and management. Wind turbines near REWS can interfere with the system due to their large and varying returns, which could mask nearby targets and increase the detection threshold causing loss of detection of targets of interest. Also, the REWS performance can be affected by the radar shadows from turbines and overloading of the track table. This paper highlights some of the key parameters for the modelling of the potential interference on REWS. This paper will also present some modelling result for generic wind turbines nearfield scattering, simplified shadowing effects and the impact of turbines return on the detection threshold. Finally a scenario to illustrate the compound effects on the REWS detection performance is presented.
U2 - 10.1049/iet-map.2016.0835
DO - 10.1049/iet-map.2016.0835
M3 - Article
SN - 1751-8725
JO - IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation
JF - IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation
M1 - MAP-SI-2016-0835
ER -
