Economic and environmental assessment of rooftops regarding suitability for photovoltaic systems installation based on remote sensing data

Energy

Volumn 107, Issue , 2016, Pages 854-865

  Lukač, Niko ^a   Seme, Sebastijan ^a   Dežan, Katarina ^a   Žalik, Borut ^a   Štumberger, Gorazd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

GGER; LiDAR; NPV; PV potential; PV systems; Solar energy

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; HOUSING; LIFE CYCLE; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS; EFFICIENCY CHARACTERISTIC; ENERGY PAY BACK TIME; GGER; HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING; LIDAR (LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING); PV POTENTIAL; PV SYSTEM;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; DATA SET; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIDAR; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; ROOF; SOLAR POWER;

NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS;

EID: 84966708006     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.04.089     Document Type: Article

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