Developing solar photovoltaic (PV) systems is an effective way to address the problems of
limited fossil fuel reserves, soaring world energy demand and global climate change. The …

Solar energy has been rapidly utilized in urban environments owing to its significant
potential to fulfill the energy demand. The precise forecasting of solar energy, including solar …

Rooftop photovoltaic (PV) power generation is an important form of solar energy
development, especially in rural areas where there is a large quantity of idle rural building …

Power consumption in urban areas is enormous and expected to rise exponentially in the
coming years. Thermal power plants connected to the grid supply the majority of this …

For a future carbon-neutral society, it is a great challenge to coordinate between the demand
and supply sides of a power grid with high penetration of renewable energy sources. In this …

While photovoltaic (PV) systems are being installed at an unprecedented rate, it is
challenging to keep track of them due to their decentralized character and large number. In …

Building roof extraction from airborne laser scanning point clouds is significant for building
modeling. The common method adopts a bottom-up strategy which requires a ground …

One of the main factors for the determination of the energy yield of photovoltaic (PV) systems
is the incoming solar irradiation, which is a function of (i) the spatial configuration of the PV …

Along with the widespread adoption of solar energy, it is fundamental to develop methods
and tools that help practitioners during the design phase of photovoltaic (PV) systems …

This paper suggests a new algorithm for automatic building point cloud filtering based on the
Z coordinate histogram. This operation aims to select the roof class points from the building …