Cloud motion and stability estimation for intra-hour solar forecasting

Solar Energy

Volumn 115, Issue , 2015, Pages 645-655

  Chow, Chi Wai ^a   Belongie, Serge ^b   Kleissl, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science Cornell Tech ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud motion tracking; Cloud stability; Sky imager; Solar forecast

Indexed keywords

IMAGE REGISTRATION; MOTION ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FLOWS; PIXELS; STABILITY; TRAJECTORIES;

CLOUD MOTIONS; CLOUD STABILITIES; CROSS CORRELATION METHODS; POINT TRAJECTORY; SKY IMAGER; SMOOTHNESS PARAMETER; SOLAR FORECASTING; SUBPIXEL ACCURACY;

FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORECASTING METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PIXEL; SOLAR ACTIVITY; STABILIZATION; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EID: 84926040320     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2015.03.030     Document Type: Article

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