NREL 30-Second ASI Timeseries April 4-21, 2019
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Peter Shaffery (University of Colorado Boulder)Afshin Andreas (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)Manajit Sengupta (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)Aron Habte (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)Marcos Netto (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)Venkat Krishnan (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
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- Peter Shaffery
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- DOI:
- 10.21227/1s3y-9e64
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Abstract
All Sky Imagers or Total Sky Imagers (ASIs or TSIs) have substantial promise as scalable sensors for solar resource estimation and forecasting. ASI images are high-resolution fisheye images containing large amounts of sky content. This dataset contains ASI images taken at a 30-second time resolution, over a period of 17 days during April 2019 using an all-sky imager model ASI-16 by EKO Instrument. These images were used to test an automated clear sky image selection algorithm, however they can be used for a variety of other purposes including cloud position forecasting or solar irradiance estimation.
Instructions:
The dataset is stored as a tarball (.tar.gz). Data can be extracted on most Linux systems using the command `tar -xzvf ASIs.tar.gz`. On MacOS systems the Archive Utility should be able to extract .tar.gz files by default. On Windows systems third-party software such as 7zip is available to extract tarballs. Alternatively the Windows Linux Subsystem can be used with the command `tar -xzvf ASIs.tar.gz`.
