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Analyzing Solar Irradiance Variation From GPS and Cameras

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2018-04-23 v1 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Abstract

The total amount of solar irradiance falling on the earth's surface is an important area of study amongst the photo-voltaic (PV) engineers and remote sensing analysts. The received solar irradiance impacts the total amount of generated solar energy. However, this generation is often hindered by the high degree of solar irradiance variability. In this paper, we study the main factors behind such variability with the assistance of Global Positioning System (GPS) and ground-based, high-resolution sky cameras. This analysis will also be helpful for understanding cloud phenomenon and other events in the earth's atmosphere.

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@article{arxiv.1804.07629,
  title  = {Analyzing Solar Irradiance Variation From GPS and Cameras},
  author = {Shilpa Manandhar and Soumyabrata Dev and Yee Hui Lee and Yu Song Meng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.07629},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Published in IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, 2018

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