Abstract :
A new technique of filtering solar radiation ground data is proposed for generating models for solar irradiance estimation
from geostationary satellite data. The filtering processes consists of an iterative way of selecting the training
data set to achieve the best model response. Although in this paper the proposed methodology has been used for solar
irradiance modeling, it could be applied to any kind of empirical modeling. The iterative filtering method has proven to
have fast convergence and to improve successfully the statistical model response, when applied to hourly global irradiance
calculation from satellite-derived irradiances for 13 Spanish locations. Individual statistical models for hourly
global irradiance were fitted using the Heliosat I method applied to Meteosat images of 13 Spanish stations for the period
1994–1996.
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