摘要:
Certain aspects pertain to a combination sensor comprising a set of physical sensors facing different directions proximate a structure, and configured to measure solar radiation in different directions. The combination sensor also comprises a virtual facade-aligned sensor configured to determine a combi-sensor value at a facade of the structure based on solar radiation readings from the set of physical sensors.
摘要:
Hourly CO 2 concentration, amount of solar radiation, and plant distribution information are calculated through observation from predetermined satellites. A concentration of CO 2 absorbed by plant-chlorophyll per each time unit is calculated. By adding up the CO 2 concentration on the earth and the concentration of CO 2 absorbed by the plant-chlorophyll, a CO 2 concentration obtained provided that no plant-chlorophyll exist is calculated for a certain period. Thereafter, a mean concentration of CO 2 that is absorbed according to changes in the distribution of plant-chlorophyll is calculated on the basis of a monthly mean solar radiation amount and plant-chlorophyll distribution information. By subtracting the CO 2 concentration, which is a mean, from the total CO 2 concentration, a CO 2 concentration, which is a normal, is calculated.
摘要:
A system and method for identifying the solar potential of rooftops. In one embodiment, solar-potential criteria and three-dimensional spatial data and tabular data, for a selected area including parcels on which the rooftops are located, are entered into a geographic information system. Three-dimensional aerial data of the selected area, including the rooftops in the selected area, is collected. Solar azimuth and altitude angles are calculated for regular intervals to generate shadow simulation data representing shadows cast onto the rooftops by obstructions. The shadow simulation data is intersected with the XYZ coordinates of the rooftop shapes, as determined from the aerial data, to generate rooftop shade patterns for specific intervals over a specific period of time. The tabular data and the rooftop shade patterns are then used to determine addresses and per-parcel specifications of buildings having said rooftops meeting the solar-potential criteria.
摘要:
A radiation sensor with particular application to detection of sunshine has at least two (but typically seven) light sensitive detectors and a masking element. The masking element has a pattern of translucent and opaque areas which are disposed to ensure that at any time at least one detector can be exposed to direct sunlight (if the sun is shining) through a translucent area and at least one detector is shaded from direct sunlight by an opaque area. Signal processing apparatus analyses signals from the detectors, such analysis including a comparison of the signal from the detector exposed to the most light and the signal from the detector exposed to the least light.
摘要:
A method for predicting short-term cloud coverage includes a computer calculating an estimated cloud velocity field at a current time value based on sky images. The computer determines a segmented cloud model based on the sky images, a future sun location corresponding to a future time value, and sun pixel locations at the future time value based on the future sun location. Next, the computer applies a back-propagation algorithm to the sun pixel locations using the estimated cloud velocity field to yield propagated sun pixel locations corresponding to a previous time value. Then, the computer predicts cloud coverage for the future sun location based on the propagated sun pixel locations and the segmented cloud model.
摘要:
In an embodiment, measurements are simulated of direct normal irradiance, diffuse horizontal and global horizontal irradiance from groups of two or more photovoltaic arrays and/or irradiance sensors which are located in close proximity to each other and which have different tilt and azimuth angles. 5 Irradiance measurements derived from solar power system power measurements are combined with measurements made by irradiance sensors to synthesize an image of ground level global horizontal irradiance which can be used to create a vector describing motion of that image of irradiance in an area of interest. A sequence of these irradiance images can be transformed into a time series from 10 which a motion vector can be derived.
摘要:
The present invention is concerned with the operation of solar power plants such as Photo Voltaic (PV) or Concentrated Solar thermal Power (CSP) plants. The invention involves recursive updating of estimated parameters pertaining to pre-defined and physically motivated cloud evolution models that are instantiated and assigned to clouds identified in images taken by a ground-based visible-light camera. Identification of clouds, which includes assigning individual pixels of an image to one or several identified clouds, and selection of matching cloud models invoke some elaborate complexity beyond conventional pixel-wise image processing. This ultimately allows to predict a cloud-wise, as opposed to a pixel-wise, evolution based on cloud evolution models with a limited number of estimated parameters.
摘要:
Hourly CO 2 concentration, amount of solar radiation, and plant distribution information are calculated through observation from predetermined satellites. A concentration of CO 2 absorbed by plant-chlorophyll per each time unit is calculated. By adding up the CO 2 concentration on the earth and the concentration of CO 2 absorbed by the plant-chlorophyll, a CO 2 concentration obtained provided that no plant-chlorophyll exist is calculated for a certain period. Thereafter, a mean concentration of CO 2 that is absorbed according to changes in the distribution of plant-chlorophyll is calculated on the basis of a monthly mean solar radiation amount and plant-chlorophyll distribution information. By subtracting the CO 2 concentration, which is a mean, from the total CO 2 concentration, a CO 2 concentration, which is a normal, is calculated.