Patent ID: 7983844

Claim:
A device for determining wind conditions within a geographic area, the device comprising: a memory area configured to store a plurality of input wind resource grids including a plurality of input points, each input point of the plurality of input points associated with a wind condition, a first geographic position, and a meteorological instrument having a second geographic position, the first geographic position of at least one input point being within the geographic area; and, a processor coupled to the memory area and programmed to: define an output wind resource grid having a plurality of output points associated with a third geographic position within the geographic area; and, for each output point of the plurality of output points of the output wind resource grid, determine a wind condition based at least in part on: a wind condition associated with at least one corresponding input point; and, a distance between the third geographic position of the output point and the second geographic position of a meteorological instrument associated with the at least one corresponding input point.