A GIS method for assessing roof-mounted solar energy potential: A case study in Jiangsu, China

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 843-848

  Liu, Guangxu ^a,b   Wu, Wenxiang ^a   Ge, Quansheng ^a   Dai, Erfu ^a   Wan, Zhiwei ^a,b   Zhou, Yang ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Available solar energy; GIS; Jiangsu Province; RMPV

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052508058     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2011.117     Document Type: Article

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