openEO

EURAC Photovoltaic Farms mapping

Photovoltaic farms (PV farms) mapping is essential for establishing valid policies regarding natural resources management and clean energy. An openEO process was developped which uses the predtrained random forest network to efficiently detect the PV farms.

Sources:

[1] Kruitwagen, L., et al. A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units. Nature 598, 604–610 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03957-7

[2] Schramm, M, et al. The openEO API–Harmonising the Use of Earth Observation Cloud Services Using Virtual Data Cube Functionalities. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 1125. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13061125

[3] https://github.com/clausmichele/openEO_photovoltaic/tree/main

Execution information

ParameterTypeDefault

spatial_extent

Spatial extent specified as a bounding box with 'west', 'south', 'east' and 'north' fields.

object
{"west":16.342,"south":47.962,"east":16.414,"north":48.008}

temporal_extent

Temporal extent specified as two-element array with start and end date/date-time.

array
["2023-05-01","2023-09-30"]

Contact

  • Hans Vanrompay

    VITO

    Researcher

    principal investigator

  • VITO

    processor