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Quantification of the suitable rooftop area for solar panel installation from overhead imagery using Convolutional Neural Networks

Castello, Roberto  
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Walch, Alina  
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Attias, Raphael
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January 1, 2021
Journal of Physics: Conference Series CISBAT 2021 - Carbon-Neutral Cities - Energy Efficiency And Renewables In The Digital Era
CISBAT 2021 - International Hybrid Conference on Carbon Neutral Cities - Energy Efficiency and Renewables in the Digital Era

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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