Will Barker Email & Phone Number

Leeds, United Kingdom

Remote Sensing Specialists provide independent consultancy services for the development and application of remote sensing technologies.We have in house nine years experience in the development and application of remote sensing technologies in the wind energy sector.This ranges from fundamental research and the development of LIDAR technology to the application of LIDAR and SODAR technologies in wind farm design and the assessment of uncertainty in remote sensing data.www.remsens.com

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Research and development with respect to application of the Galion scanning Doppler LiDAR in the wind energy sector.

Malvern, United Kingdom

Expert member of the International Electrotechnical Commission committee for the revision of IEC 61400-12-1 “Power Performance Measurements of Electricity Producing Wind Turbines” with respect to the inclusion of remote wind measurements.Specification, budgeting, procurement and operation of the UK’s first dedicated IEC compliant tall mast test site for remote wind sensors.Research and development with respect to the measurement of atmospheric turbulence with LiDAR. Development of onboard quality control algorithms for continuous wave LiDAR.Classification of LiDAR performance against mast anemometry following the revision of IEC 61400-12-1 including development of a novel method for improving the uncertainty assessments in the classification.Analysis of the impact of the use of remote sensing in wind resource assessment on project financing.Analysis of the impact of turbulence measurements on commonly used wind turbine wake models and on the assessment of design turbulence in turbine selection studies.Implementation of IEC 61400-12-1 in the assessment of wind turbine power curves from measured data.Facilitation of knowledge transfer between Natural Power Consultants Ltd. and ZephIR Ltd. with respect to LiDAR design and the application of LiDAR in wind resource assessment. Analysis of the application of CFD derived conversion factors to compensate for bias in LiDAR measurements encountered in complex terrain..Contributor to IEA Task 32 : “LIDAR: Wind Lidar Systems for Wind Energy Deployment”

Scotland

Management of projects involving wind farm design, wind resource assessment and annual energy yield prediction including budgeting and quote preparation, carrying out project work, budget management, reporting and invoicing. Experience in the use of methodologies and tools for wind farm design and analysis applicable to a variety of terrain types including complex terrain, forestry and offshore projects :- - WAsP certified user since 2007. - Use of WindFarmer and openWind software for layout design, noise assessments, energy yield studies and wind farm visualisations.- Commercial application of advanced technology for wind energy resource assessment including remote sensing (ZephIR lidar), computational fluid dynamics wind flow models (VENTOS) and reanalysis data.Experience in statistical analysis of wind data using Windographer, Excel and in-house software.Trained in working on-site and in carrying out site assessments.Specified and developed a web-based database system for the assimilation and analysis of data for wind resource assessment.Ran a global network of diverse wind monitoring equipment including anemometer masts and remote sensing (LiDAR) equipment. This included running integrated data handling, checking and reporting processes coordinated by a custom built database systemProduced presentations and reports to a high technical level for issue to clients, presentation at events and publication in conference proceedings.CDM health and safety trained.Certified for off-road driving.ISO 9001 Accreditation : Prepared procedures for audit.

York, United Kingdom

Research assistant on the POEtic project. EU funded project developing a biologically inspired FPGA architecture for implementation of cellular electronic systems. Developed fault-tolerant system implementations within the POEtic FPGA architecture and simulated them using the VHDL description of the device. Responsibilities included production of reports for presentation at EU review meetings, production of published work for conferences and production and delivery of visual presentations supporting the work.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Remote Sensing

Activities and Societies: Postgraduate certificate in research methodologies. Lecturing position in electronics. Research carried out.

Beng (Hons), Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering

Mechanical, electrical and electronic engineering covering topics including :- Power systems, materials, DSP, engineering mathematics.