American Solar Farms
6 hours ago
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- #geospatial-data
- Jake Stid announced GM-SEUS, a dataset of 15K solar arrays and 2.9M panels across the lower 48 U.S. states.
- The dataset was created by a team including alumni from NOAA, NASA, and USGS.
- GM-SEUS is divided into two datasets: one for arrays and another for panels.
- The author's workstation includes high-performance hardware (AMD Ryzen 9, 96GB RAM, NVMe SSD) running Ubuntu via Windows 11.
- Prerequisites for analysis include GDAL, DuckDB with extensions, and QGIS for mapping.
- The arrays dataset contains 15,017 records with fields like capacity, installation year, and panel type.
- The panels dataset has 2,917,782 records, detailing panel dimensions, azimuth, and mounting type.
- Only 5,358 out of 15,017 arrays have panels mapped in the dataset.
- Future versions aim to improve panel detection for better coverage.