Advances and prospects on estimating solar photovoltaic installation capacity and potential based on satellite and aerial images

H Mao, X Chen, Y Luo, J Deng, Z Tian, J Yu… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar photovoltaic (PV) system, as one kind of the most promising renewable energy
technologies, plays a key role in reducing carbon emissions to achieve the targets of global …

A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units

L Kruitwagen, KT Story, J Friedrich, L Byers, S Skillman… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Photovoltaic (PV) solar energy generating capacity has grown by 41 per cent per year since
2009 1. Energy system projections that mitigate climate change and aid universal energy …

xview: Objects in context in overhead imagery

D Lam, R Kuzma, K McGee, S Dooley, M Laielli… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
We introduce a new large-scale dataset for the advancement of object detection techniques
and overhead object detection research. This satellite imagery dataset enables research …

Recent advances in local feature detector and descriptor: a literature survey

K Joshi, MI Patel - International Journal of Multimedia Information …, 2020 - Springer
The computer vision system is the technology that deals with identifying and detecting the
objects of a particular class in digital images and videos. Local feature detection and …

Urban solar utilization potential mapping via deep learning technology: A case study of Wuhan, China

Z Huang, T Mendis, S Xu - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
This study presents a novel approach to detect the city-wide solar potential which utilizes
image segmentation with deep learning technology unlike traditional methods. In order to …

Deep learning approach for building detection in satellite multispectral imagery

G Prathap, I Afanasyev - 2018 international conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Building detection from satellite multispectral imagery data is being a fundamental but a
challenging problem mainly because it requires correct recovery of building footprints from …

[HTML][HTML] Automated classification of heat sources detected using SWIR remote sensing

S Kato, H Miyamoto, S Amici, A Oda… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The potential of shortwave infrared (SWIR) remote sensing to detect hotspots has been
investigated using satellite data for decades. The hotspots detected by satellite SWIR …

Satellite data applications for sustainable energy transitions

MR Edwards, T Holloway, RB Pierce, L Blank… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Transitioning to a sustainable energy system poses a massive challenge to communities,
nations, and the global economy in the next decade and beyond. A growing portfolio of …

Deep learning for check dam area extraction with optical images and digital elevation model: A case study in the hilly and gully regions of the Loess Plateau, China

L Sun, H Guo, H Wang, B Zhang, H Feng… - Earth Surface …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Check dams are widely used on the Loess Plateau of China to control soil and water loss,
develop agricultural land and improve watershed ecology. Detailed information on the …

Rural building detection in high-resolution imagery based on a two-stage CNN model

L Sun, Y Tang, L Zhang - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-level feature extraction and hierarchical feature representation of image objects with a
convolutional neural network (CNN) can overcome the limitations of the traditional building …