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Innovative Approach for a Reliable Mapping of the Morocco’s Solar Resource (10291)

Asmae Azzioui, Moulay Hafid Bouhamidi, Mustapha Mouadine and Mohammed Ettarid (Morocco)
Mrs Asmae Azzioui
Sites Prospection - Ressource Forecasting Engineer
Masen
The Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy
Rabat
Morocco
 
Corresponding author Mrs Asmae Azzioui (email: asmaeazzioui[at]gmail.com, tel.: 00212649687992)
 

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Published on the web 2020-02-28
Received 2019-10-01 / Accepted 2020-02-03
This paper is one of selection of papers published for the FIG Working Week 2020 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and has undergone the FIG Peer Review Process.

FIG Working Week 2020
ISBN 978-87-92853-93-6 ISSN 2307-4086
https://fig.net/resources/proceedings/fig_proceedings/fig2020/index.htm

Abstract

The current national energy policy aims to develop and promote renewable and clean energy. To this end, one of the Morocco's most available energies that could contribute appreciably to improving national energy mix is solar energy. Thus; any solar project must rely (at least in large part) on modeled (satellite-based) irradiance data. However, a key question remains: the reliability of these data sets and generated maps. It is in this outlook that our study comes to highlight the problems with the assessment of the solar resource and to stress the concept of the calibration of satellite data to ground measurements (site-specific adaptation). In order to achieve this desired goal, we have introduced the different procedures of local calibration used in the solar energy industry and operated the calibration of the Moroccan Solar Atlas (MSA). In this context, an innovative protocol of generalization of the calibration to cover the entire territory of Morocco has been implemented and has demonstrated the quality of the proposed method and its contribution compared to conventional methods. Keywords: solar radiation, GHI (Global Horizontal Irradiance), DNI (Direct Normal Irradiance), satellite-based database, ground measurements, calibration, solar atlas, method
 
Keywords: Geoinformation/GI; Cartography; Remote sensing; Engineering survey; Spatial planning; Young surveyor; GIS, mapping, renewable energy

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