Surface Solar Radiation Modeling from Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS Satellite Data

Abstract

At present, estimating surface solar radiation by exploiting satellite data is a very promising method. Indeed, satellite observations provide an alternative means to derive solar radiation due to their spatially continuous observations for large areas. In the present work, we propose a method to estimate solar radiation at earth’s ground using Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS data. This method will eventually allow us to create a space maps of the solar radiation distribution received on ground. The chosen study area is Oran $(35^{\circ}42$`23``N, $0^{\circ}34$`43``W) in Algeria.