I was invited to report about our recent radar-based wind energy activities in the DGZfP expert committee Structural Health Monitoring. The presentation was divided into three sections: Grout-Radar, Tower-Radar and In-Blade Radar.

A big thanks goes out to my working group, the numerous cooperation partners, and the funding agencies.

Reference Grout-Radar:

• Maetz, T.; Kappel, J.; Wiemann, M.; Bergmannshoff, D.; Hägelen, M.; Jetten, R.; Schmidt, M.; Käsgen, J.; Jackel, M.; Moll, J.; Kraemer, P. & Krozer, V., Microwave Structural Health Monitoring of the Grouted Connection of a Monopile-Based Offshore Wind Turbine: Fatigue Testing using a Scaled Laboratory Demonstrator, Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 2023, 1981892, 18 pages

Reference Tower-Radar:

• Alipek, S. ; Kexel, C. & Moll, J., Explainable Machine Learning for Tower-Radar Monitoring of Wind Turbine Blades: Fine-grained Blade Recognition under Changing Operational Conditions, 2026, Sensors (accepted: January 2026)

Reference In-Blade-Radar:

• Simon, J.; Kurin, T.; Moll, J.; Bagemiel, O.; Wedel, R.; Krause, S.; Lurz, F.; Nuber, A.; Issakov, V. & Krozer, V., Embedded Radar Networks for Damage Detection in Wind Turbine Blades: Validation in a Full-scale Fatigue Test, Structural Health Monitoring, 2023, 22(6), pp. 4252-4263