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UMaine offshore wind team engaged in international race to use lasers to gauge ocean wind speeds

March 3, 2013
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From the Bangor Daily News: “UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center is working on a buoy-based light detection and ranging system, or LiDAR, which it hopes to deploy in the Gulf of Maine by late May or early June, according the center’s director, Habib Dagher. “The technology uses a laser to measure the speed...

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