Distributed energy resource and infrastructure

assessment using overhead imagery

Image: NASA

Research Vision

Global energy

infrastructure

sustainably

Supply

Demand

1

2

3

Transmission & Distribution

Access4

1 Distributed energy supply

Goal: locations power

capacity energy generation

More

Less

Estimating Energy from Distributed Solar Using Satellite Imagery

Solar PV Data

Convolutional Neural Networks

Sample Results

Capacity & Energy Estimation

NREL, 2008

Results

City Precision Recall F1 score

Overall 0.76 0.77 0.76

Installed solar PV capacity estimates

More

Less

0.89

Automated estimates of residential solar PV capacity

for CT municipalities

2 Transmission & Distribution

Substation Transmission Distribution

Over 800 million people lack electricity access

Transmission Data

Results

0.15 meter, Airborne(proprietary)

0.3 meter, SatelliteWorldView-3 & 4 (proprietary)

0.5 meter, Satellite WorldView-1 & 2 (proprietary)

10 meter, SatelliteSentinel (free, extent: global)

1 meter, AirborneNAIP (free, extent: USA)

3 meter, SatellitePlanet CubeSats (proprietary)

Challenge #1

Data

resolution

and

availability

Hartford, CTTucson, AZ

Colwich, KS Clyde, NC

Challenge #2

Geographic

diversity

ENERGYdata analytics lab

For questions, contact Kyle Bradbury (kyle.Bradbury@duke.edu)

References