Design of a sun tracker for the automatic measurement of spectral irradiance and construction of an irradiance database in the 330-1100 nm range

Renewable Energy

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2053-2068

  Canada J ^a   Utrillas, M P ^b   Martinez Lozano, J A ^b   Pedros R ^b   Gomez Amo J L ^b   Maj, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Direct solar spectral irradiance; Sun tracker

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FIBER OPTICS; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR RADIATION; TRACKING (POSITION);

DIRECT SOLAR SPECTRAL IRRADIANCE; SUN TRACKER;

SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FIBER OPTICS; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; TRACKING (POSITION);

AUTOMATION; DATABASE; DESIGN; IRRADIANCE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR POWER; TRACKING;

EID: 33847646296     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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