An operational tool for the fine-scale mapping of the incident solar radiation using satellite images: the Heliosat station

Lamissa Diabaté (1) , Guy Moussu (1) , Lucien Wald (2)

1 CTAMN - Centre de Télédétection et d'Analyse des Milieux Naturels
2 CEP/Sophia

An operational tool for the fine-scale mapping of the incident solar radiation is presented. It makes use of meteorological satellite images to produce accurate maps of global radiation. Satellite data are directly received by a cheap HF receiver and processed into a personal computer IBM-PC, usin the already known Heliosat method. The first prototype was realised in 1985. Now a Heliosat station is routinely operated by Agence Française pour la Maîtrise de l'Energie since January 1987.

Domaines: Planète et Univers [physics]; Sciences de la Terre; Météorologie; Planète et Univers [physics]; Océan, Atmosphère; Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Informatique [cs]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Lamissa Diabaté, Guy Moussu, Lucien Wald. An operational tool for the fine-scale mapping of the incident solar radiation using satellite images: the Heliosat station. 1988 Annual Meeting of the American Solar Energy Society, Jun 1988, Cambridge, Mass., United States. pp.11-17. ⟨hal-00464367⟩