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http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2021.37.2.5

A Study on Photovoltaic Panel Monitoring Using Sentinel-1 InSAR Coherence  

Yoon, Donghyeon (Center for Environmental Data Strategy, Korea Environment Institute)
Lee, Moungjin (Center for Environmental Data Strategy, Korea Environment Institute)
Lee, Seungkuk (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Pukyong National University)
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Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.37, no.2, 2021 , pp. 233-243 More about this Journal
Abstract
Photovoltaic panels are hazardous electronic waste that has heavy metal as one of the hazardous components. Each year, hazardous electronic waste is increasing worldwide and every heavy rainfall exposes the photovoltaic panel to become the source of heavy metal soil contamination. the development needs a monitoring technology for this hazardous exposure. this research use relationships between SAR temporal baseline and coherence of Sentinel-1 satellite to detected photovoltaic panel. Also, the photovoltaic plant detection tested using the difference between that photovoltaic panel and the other difference surface of coherence. The author tested the photovoltaic panel and its environment to calculate differences in coherence relationships. As a result of the experiment, the coherence of the photovoltaic panel, which is assumed to be a permanent scatterer, shows a bias that is biased toward a median value of 0.53 with a distribution of 0.50 to 0.65. Therefore, further research is needed to improve errors that may occur during processing. Additionally, the author found that the change detection using a temporal baseline is possible as the rate of reduction of coherence of photovoltaic panels differs from those of artificial objects such as buildings. This result could be an efficient way to continuously monitor regardless of weather conditions, which was a limitation of the existing optical satellite image-based photovoltaic panel detection research and to understand the spatial distribution in situations such as photovoltaic panel loss.
Keywords
Photovoltaic Panel; Sentinel-1; Coherence; Environment Monitoring;
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