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The SoDa Service contains many free and for-registered services (or resources) and its content is evolving as additional resources (databases, algorithms, end-user applications) are populating the SoDa Service. The services are organised in categories of services or domains (e.g., air quality, or solar energy systems). The list of the services for free is available in green here. If you are only interested in free irradiation values, use this link.

For any other request, please send us a request to one of the two mailing lists. Use the REQUEST-GUIDE to build the most complete request
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I need: a single time series an annual subscription a map other
I need to precise: the postal address of your company
  • the latitude, longitude and altitude (optional) of my geographical location
  • the plane orientation of the data: horizontal, fixed-tilted or normal to sun rays (trackers)
  • the time step of retrieval of the data: monthly, daily, hourly or 15 minute data
  • the time period covered by the data
  • the plane orientation of the data: horizontal, fixed-tilted or normal to sun rays (trackers)
  • the time step of retrieval of the data: monthly, daily, hourly or 15 minute data
  • the type of access: through the website (using a login and a password) or using the wget or curl automatic command.
  • the country (ies)
  • the type of data: GHI, BHI, GNI or BNI
  • the time aggregation: yearly and/or monthly averaged irradiation maps
  • the time period covered by the averaged maps (maximum 7 years of HelioClim3 data)
 the type of service you need: calibration of a HC3 time series using a ground station data...
REQUEST-GUIDE

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Lead time information for the HC3 annual subscription

The Meteosat Second Generation images, provided by Eumetsat, are acquired every 15 minute. They are processed using the HelioSat-2 method every night at 9:00 PM UT to update the HelioClim-3 database. This process takes approximately 2h-2h30. The data are though available around 11:30 PM UT.

The Eumetsat agreement stipulates that we can provide to our Customers the Meteosat-derived products with a minimum delay or 24 hours without additional fee. In order to be allowed to provide the irradiation values as soon as they are avaible on our server, we had to purchase an additional annual fee, that we must partly pass on our annual subscription prices, if the Customer makes the request for the "near real time" option.

Several of our Customers requested us a brief presentation of HelioClim, HelioSat, Meteosat, Transvalor, Mines ParisTech... You can download and join to your reports these two pdf pages.

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Spatial and temporal resolutions


Resolution and coverage of msg-2.Click here to magnify the image (Copyright Mines ParisTech 2009). More information.

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