Best software for wind resource assessment
What do you like best?
I have been using this application for 10 years and it keeps evolving to adapt to new types of data or data analysis methods for wind resource assessment. It has advanced features for data loading from various types of loggers or measurement systems, a comprehensive tool for data cleaning (although it is still manual) and all the tools necessary to create long term time series representative of a site.
There is also a database version of the application that works with SQL databases, so you can do all your work from within the application, once your data workflow is set.
What do you dislike?
Not really a big issue, but the UI is now a bit outdated when you compare to web based applications. The application would benefit from a UI refactor, a cloud/web version and better interactivity with the graphics or between the various types of graphics you can use to visualize and process data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider using the SQL database version for increased efficiency and seamless workflow.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
The tool is definitely a must use for data cleaning and wind resource assessment (data comparison, extrapolation, shear calculation, etc.), especially ad-hoc analysis. It doesn't have many competitors that offer such a wide spectrum of tools in that domain.
The database version is a huge time saver for data processing and storing.