New renewable energy prototype data sets from NASA satellites and research

International Solar Energy Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Stackhouse Jr , Paul W ^a   Whitlock, Charles H ^b   Chandler, William S ^b   Hoell, James M ^b   Westberg, David ^b   Zhang, Taiping ^c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Analytic Services and Materials   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATIONAL SOLAR RADIATION DATABASE (NSRDB); PREDICTION OF WORLDWIDE ENERGY RESOURCE (POWER); SOLAR IRRADIANCE;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EARTH SCIENCES; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; WEBSITES;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 33845744020     PISSN: 15468402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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