COUNTRY ANALYSIS FOR SOLAR THERMAL POWER STATIONS USING REMOTE SENSING METHODS

摘要

Identifying the best available sites for the erection of solar thermal power plants is a basic issue of projectdevelopment. As traditional solutions for this question seem insufficient, the planning tool STEPS was developedat the German Aerospace Center, DLR, to meet this demand. The use of remote sensing data inSTEPS allows to analyze large areas on the country scale exhaustively and in a high resolution (countryanalysis). Thus, a number of significant benefits can be obtained, among others, a considerable cost reductionin comparison to traditional methods. In this paper the specific approach of STEPS, the benefits expectedby this approach and the broad field of future applications are pointed out.