Detecting Absorption of Solar Radiation By Clouds With Satellite Imagery Processing
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Solar irradiance data are crucial to PV system performance analysis. Although lightmeters (or pyranometers) have been applied in utility-level solar farms, they are not economically feasible for commercial/residential-level solar sites. Publicly accessible data, such as meteorological satellite imagery, are potentially an ideal source to meet the emerging demand. This research applied satellite imagery processing and supervised learning algorithms to classify/quantity cloud absorption, and thereby predict solar irradiance.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012