Geographic aspects of photovoltaics in Europe: Contribution of the PVGIS website

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-41

  Šúri, Marcel ^a   Huld, Thomas ^a   Cebecauer, Tomáš ^a,b   Dunlop, Ewan D ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Geographic information systems; Internet; Knowledge distribution systems; Photovoltaic power systems; Solar radiation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS; CLIMATE DATUMS; DATA ANALYSIS; ENERGY PROJECTS; EXISTING SYSTEMS; GROUND OBSERVATIONS; INPUT DATUMS; INTERACTIVE MAPS; KNOWLEDGE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE DISTRIBUTIONS; LESSONS LEARNED; LOWER DENSITIES; METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS; OBSERVATION PERIODS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGIES; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PV TECHNOLOGIES; SIMULATION MODELS; SIMULATION SOFTWARES; TECHNICAL ASPECTS; TIME RESOLUTIONS; TWO POINTS; WEB INTERFACES; WEB SITES; WEB TOOLS; YIELD PREDICTIONS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

DATA PROCESSING; GIS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SOFTWARE; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 77950866994     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2008.2001431     Document Type: Review

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