Objective
Objectives
The objective of the project deals with the setting up of a WWW server in Lyon (France) providing solar radiation and daylight data on the ground every half an hour all over Western and Central Europe. Such data are needed by the building industry as well as the solar systems industry. The data base will cover two full years (1996/1997), but could be easily extended if new satellite files are added. The server will include various programmes allowing the determination of data in various forms: statistical, cumulative, etc. within any specified schedule. The major benefit will be the supply of solar data for areas of Europe far away from ground measuring stations.
Technical Approach
The major challenge is the calculation of data on the ground from measurements from the METEOSAT satellite. For this reason, the SATELLIGHT programme has been divided in two major phases:
Phase 1: improvement of models to calculate irradiances, illuminances on the ground as well as luminance distribution on the sky vault from data derived from satellite measurements. The calculated data are compared with ground measurements taken every minute at various locations on the ground.
Phase 2: development of a WWW server to provide solar radiation and daylighting data anywhere in Western and Central Europe. This means development of programmes and graphical routines. The storage of data will require more than 200 GB of memory.
Expected Achievements and Exploitation
There is a need today to gain rapid access to climatic data all over Europe, at any location. These data should not only be raw but processed in order to provide essential information for decision making. Furthermore daylight data are almost nonexistent (less than 15 measuring stations are operating), and measurements are not always performed continuously.
The major achievement will be to provide data to anybody connected to the Internet anywhere in Europe: the user will click a location on a map or select a site from a list of cities. He will then conduct a request for calculations and receive the results (in text or graphical form) by electronic mail.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternet
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesmeteorologysolar radiation
You need to log in or register to use this function
Call for proposal
Data not availableFunding Scheme
CSC - Cost-sharing contractsCoordinator
69518 Vaulx-en-Velin
France