Simulation of solar panels effect on microclimate in arid areas using remote sensing technology

Using renewable energy sources become more significant than nonrenewable energy sources since it can reduces fossil energy consumption in an eco-friendly manner. Building solar panels in large area and use it as alternative energy may have significant effect on the microclimate. In this study, on so...

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Main Author:	Hakami, Mohammed Ali
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2009
Subjects:	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/18534/1/MohammedAliHakamiMFKSG2009.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.185342018-06-25T09:02:10Z Simulation of solar panels effect on microclimate in arid areas using remote sensing technology 2009-05 Hakami, Mohammed Ali TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Using renewable energy sources become more significant than nonrenewable energy sources since it can reduces fossil energy consumption in an eco-friendly manner. Building solar panels in large area and use it as alternative energy may have significant effect on the microclimate. In this study, on some microclimate parameters effect have been studied extensively by measuring solar panels in field and laboratory experiments and integrating the results of these experiments through simulating in LANDSAT 7 ETM+ images of Riyadh - Saudi Arabia. The focus was on four microclimate parameters which are land surface albedo, land surface temperature, relative humidity, and atmospheric pressure. This study showed a clear impact when land cover changes to solar panel. In fact, the solar panel’s albedo in the shortwave part of Electro Magnetic Spectrum (EMS) is around 0.13, compared to the dominant landcover class in arid area, sand which is 0.30. Furthermore, by implementing solar panels over a vast arid area, the surface temperature might increase by 20 – 30 % passing from an average of 45 °C to 62 °C. Thus, the relative humidity in the time of image has dropped from 13% standardize to only 3% in the case of solar panels. The fourth studied microclimate parameter, air pressure showed no significant change before and after simulation and seen more related to altitude. 2009-05 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/18534/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/18534/1/MohammedAliHakamiMFKSG2009.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Geoinformation Science And Engineering Faculty of Geoinformation Science And Engineering
institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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language	English
topic	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering Hakami, Mohammed Ali Simulation of solar panels effect on microclimate in arid areas using remote sensing technology
description	Using renewable energy sources become more significant than nonrenewable energy sources since it can reduces fossil energy consumption in an eco-friendly manner. Building solar panels in large area and use it as alternative energy may have significant effect on the microclimate. In this study, on some microclimate parameters effect have been studied extensively by measuring solar panels in field and laboratory experiments and integrating the results of these experiments through simulating in LANDSAT 7 ETM+ images of Riyadh - Saudi Arabia. The focus was on four microclimate parameters which are land surface albedo, land surface temperature, relative humidity, and atmospheric pressure. This study showed a clear impact when land cover changes to solar panel. In fact, the solar panel’s albedo in the shortwave part of Electro Magnetic Spectrum (EMS) is around 0.13, compared to the dominant landcover class in arid area, sand which is 0.30. Furthermore, by implementing solar panels over a vast arid area, the surface temperature might increase by 20 – 30 % passing from an average of 45 °C to 62 °C. Thus, the relative humidity in the time of image has dropped from 13% standardize to only 3% in the case of solar panels. The fourth studied microclimate parameter, air pressure showed no significant change before and after simulation and seen more related to altitude.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Hakami, Mohammed Ali
author_facet	Hakami, Mohammed Ali
author_sort	Hakami, Mohammed Ali
title	Simulation of solar panels effect on microclimate in arid areas using remote sensing technology
title_short	Simulation of solar panels effect on microclimate in arid areas using remote sensing technology
title_full	Simulation of solar panels effect on microclimate in arid areas using remote sensing technology
title_fullStr	Simulation of solar panels effect on microclimate in arid areas using remote sensing technology
title_full_unstemmed	Simulation of solar panels effect on microclimate in arid areas using remote sensing technology
title_sort	simulation of solar panels effect on microclimate in arid areas using remote sensing technology
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Geoinformation Science And Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Geoinformation Science And Engineering
publishDate	2009
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/18534/1/MohammedAliHakamiMFKSG2009.pdf
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Simulation of solar panels effect on microclimate in arid areas using remote sensing technology

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