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  • A 6-foot cube-like box called a sodar can measure wind speed and direction.

    Island Packet: Home 2008

  • A 6-foot cube-like box called a sodar can measure wind speed and direction.

    Island Packet: Home 2008

  • Key products include: Nomad® wind data logger and tower systems; Triton® sodar systems; and SkyServe® satellite wind data service.

    Renewable Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com 2010

  • Second Wind's Triton is a ground-based remote sensing system that uses sodar to measure wind up to and above the 140-meter blade tip height of current utility-grade wind turbines.

    Renewable Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com 2010

  • They are using Doppler sodar, which emits sound at a known frequency.

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • Data from a RASS sodar (a device that measures vertical temperature and wind profiles and that has a larger range than conventional meteorological towers) allowed the team to classify wind speed too.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • Data from a RASS sodar (a device that measures vertical temperature and wind profiles and that has a larger range than conventional meteorological towers) allowed the team to classify wind speed too.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2009

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    Liberian Letters: Martin Coleman to Dr. James H. Minor 1858 January 28 1858

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