The Gulf of Lion, an area with a high potential for the development of floating wind turbines, is the focus of the challenges of fine characterisation of the wind resource and precise knowledge of the environmental conditions.

In this region, direct measurements are currently collected through a network of coastal anemometers. However, offshore data are needed to validate the numerical models used to characterise the resource and to design the systems.

While the installation of anemometers on masts in deep waters is technically excluded, the use of remote sensing devices, such as profiling lidar, is promising.