US Patent 8000499 Automated determination of cross-stream wind velocity from an image series

Systems and methods are provided for determining the cross-stream component of wind velocity near a target location. A modal-decomposition of a first series of images is conducted to obtain a plurality of contribution functions representing the first set of images. A second series of images is mapped to a selected subset of the plurality of contribution functions to create a set of reconstructed images. At least one characteristic of the set of reconstructed images is measured to estimate the cross-stream component of the wind velocity near the target location.