SoDa:: Services for Professionals in Solar Energy and Radiation

Case Studies - Software - Information Technologies

SoDa as a case to illustrate the increased accessibility to individuals and organisations that ICT is providing. The book AQA ICT AS level by Diane Spencer and Stuart McNee is published by Nelson Thornes for students in Information and Communication Technologies (May 2008). It exploits the case of the SoDa Service to show how ICT may facilitate the accessibility to information to help people in all sorts of situations. More information. Date: October 2007.

Setting up the Heliosat-2 method. This method converts observations made by meteorological geostationary satellites: Meteosat, GOES, GMS, GOMS, Insat, FY, into measures of shortwave radiation impinging on the ground. The software libraries are freely available. Owing to the SoDa Service, one may check the correct implementation of the libraries for the sun geometry and the radiation under clear skies. One may also check the correct reading of the values of the Linke turbidity factor and altitude of the terrain. Date: November 2002.

Thierry Poglio, of company Alcatel Space Industries, used several services of the SoDa Service to set up his software performing synthesis of landscape in thermal infrared. He was able to check the part relating to the downwelling radiation, short- and longwave. Reference: Poglio T., Savaria E., Wald L., 2002. Specifications and conceptual architecture of a thermal infrared simulator of landscapes. In Proceedings of the Colloquium SPIE (EUROPTO) "Sensors, Systems, and Next Generation Satellites VII" (CD-ROM), Toulouse, France, 17-21 September 2001, pp. 488-497. Date: January 2002.