SolarVision Almería: All-Sky Images

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This dataset provides ground-based image and sensor measurement data from a scientific research site in southern Spain (Tabernas, Almería). Its main contributions include all-sky images in the visible spectrum from three different fish-eye cameras capturing clouds motions, as well as diffuse, direct and global solar irradiance measurements from ISO 9060 class A spectrally flat pyrano- and pyrheliometers. The cameras and irradiance measuring devices are co-located within a radius of 20m at the same meteorological station. Image data is provided in its original resolution ranging from 4 to 8 MP depending on the camera, in 8-bit JPEG format. The dataset contains low-dynamic-range (LDR) images with fixed exposure times between 80 and 320µs. Furthermore, two cameras were temporarily configured to automatically generate high-dynamic-range (HDR) images. For one of the cameras, exposure series were captured, consisting of three sequential images with increasing exposure times.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.980066
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Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.980066
Provenance
Creator Fabel, Yann ORCID logo; Blum, Niklas; Nouri, Bijan; Wilbert, Stefan; Gonzalez Rodriguez, Sergio; Zarzalejo, Luis
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection https://doi.org/10.13039/501100005910 Crossref Funder ID 67KI21007A https://www.z-u-g.org/foerderung/ki-leuchttuerme-fuer-umwelt-klima-natur-und-ressourcen/projekt/ausesol-ai/ AuSeSol-AI - KI-Methoden für Wärme- und Stromerzeugung mit solarthermischen Kollektorsystemen
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 62 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-2.355 LON, 37.094 LAT); PSA, Tabernas, Spain
Temporal Coverage Begin 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2024-07-31T00:00:00Z