Estimating roof solar energy potential in the downtown area using a GPU-accelerated solar radiation model and airborne LiDAR data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 17212-17233

  Huang, Yan ^a,b   Chen, Zuoqi ^a,b   Wu, Bin ^a,b   Chen, Liang ^b   Mao, Weiqing ^c   Zhao, Feng ^c   Wu, Jianping ^a,b   Wu, Junhan ^a,b   Yu, Bailang ^a,b  

^a East China Normal University   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Shanghai Surveying and Mapping Institute   (China)

Author keywords

GPU; LiDAR; Roof planes; Solar radiation; Urban area

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY POLICY; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIATION; ROOFS; SOLAR CELL ARRAYS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

COMPLEX URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION; GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNIT(GPU); LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; SELECTION AND ASSESSMENTS; SOLAR RADIATION INTENSITY; URBAN AREAS;

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 85019352095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71215877     Document Type: Article

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