Quantification of the suitable rooftop area for solar panel installation from overhead imagery using convolutional neural networks

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The integration of solar technology in the built environment is realized mainly through rooftop-installed panels. In this paper, we leverage state-of-the-art Machine Learning and computer vision techniques applied on overhead images to provide a geo-localization of the available rooftop surfaces for solar panel installation. We further exploit a 3D building database to associate them to the corresponding roof geometries by means of a geospatial post-processing approach. The stand-alone Convolutional Neural Network used to segment suitable rooftop areas reaches an intersection over union of 64% and an accuracy of 93%, while a post-processing step using building database improves the rejection of false positives. The model is applied to a case study area in the canton of Geneva and the results are compared with another recent method used in the literature to derive the realistic available area.

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Castello, R., Walch, A., Attias, R., Cadei, R., Jiang, S., & Scartezzini, J. L. (2021). Quantification of the suitable rooftop area for solar panel installation from overhead imagery using convolutional neural networks. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 2042). IOP Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2042/1/012002

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