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17-2199.10 - Wind Energy Engineers   Save Table (XLS/CSV)

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Tools

Anemometers
  • Cup anemometers
  • Propeller anemometers
  • Recording anemometers
Barometers
  • Barometric pressure sensors
Desktop computers
Digital camcorders or video cameras
  • Digital video cameras
Digital cameras
  • Digital still cameras
Global positioning system receivers
  • Handheld global positioning system GPS units
Mainframe computers
Notebook computers
  • Laptop computers
Portable data input terminals
  • Dataloggers
Radarbased surveillance systems
  • Light detection and ranging LIDAR systems
Soil core sampling apparatus
  • Soil samplers
Solar radiation surface observing apparatus
  • Pyranometers
Temperature transmitters
  • Electronic temperature sensors
Weather stations
  • Portable meteorological stations
Wind surface observing apparatus
  • Sonic detection and ranging SODAR equipment
  • Wind vanes

Technology

Analytical or scientific software
  • ANSYS software
  • Computational fluid dynamics CFD software
  • DIgSILENT PowerFactory
  • EMD International WindPRO
  • ESRI ArcGIS Spatial Analyst
  • GE Energy Positive Sequence Load Flow Software PSLF
  • Manitoba HVDC Research Centre PSCAD
  • Power system modeling software
  • PowerWorld Corporation PowerWorld Simulator
  • ReSoft WindFarm
  • Risoe National Laboratory Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program WAsP
  • Schneider Electric Direct Coordination
  • Siemens PSS Product Suite
  • SKM Systems Analysis Power Tools
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • WindSim
Computer aided design CAD software
  • Autodesk AutoCAD software
  • Mathsoft Mathcad
  • PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire
  • SolidWorks CAD software
Data base user interface and query software
  • Microsoft Access
  • Structured query language SQL
Development environment software
  • Formula translation/translator FORTRAN
  • Microsoft Visual Basic
Electronic mail software
  • Microsoft Outlook
Industrial control software
  • Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software
Internet browser software
  • Web browser software
Map creation software
  • ESRI ArcGIS software
  • ESRI ArcInfo
  • Geographic information system GIS software
  • Global Mapper Software Global Mapper
  • Google Earth Pro
Object or component oriented development software
  • C++
  • Microsoft Visual Basic.NET
  • Microsoft Visual C# .NET
Office suite software
  • Microsoft Office software
Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Project management software
  • Microsoft Project
  • Primavera Systems software
Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Video conferencing software
  • Web conferencing software
Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word

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