Overview of the SoDa Service
The SoDa Service answers the needs of industry and research for information on solar resource, solar energy and solar radiation data and its exploitation. Examples are renewable energy systems (photovoltaics, solar thermal for water heating, solar plants, solar heating and cooling), energy efficiency in building or solar energy system, architecture, daylighting in building, environment, meteorology, climatology, global change, health, air quality and pollution, ocean, water (reservoir, eutrophication), primary production, vegetation, agriculture, forestry, horticulture, material weathering...
The SoDa Service offers a one-stop access to a large set of information relating to solar radiation and its use. It builds links to other services (also called resources) that are located in various countries. To answer a request, the SoDa service invokes several resources to elaborate the appropriate answer and ensures the flow and exchange of information between the services and itself, as well as with the customer.
A service can be a database (e.g., solar radiation database or temperature database), or an algorithm that performs on data to create a new information, or an application that provides an information that can be directly used by professionals. The SoDa Service comprises applications and a number of databases and data sets about long-term time-series of irradiance or irradiation (also called the shortwave downwelling radiation), temperature, rainfall, longwave radiation, Linke turbidity factor, atmospheric turbidity, clear-skies properties, PAR (photosynthetically active radiation), spectral distribution ...
The catalogue of services is displayed when clicking on "Services" on the above menu. From this catalogue, a service can be launched. A service can also be accessed by the item "Access a Service" on menu on the left.
This service itself is not a warehouse. The innovation is that it is made of an Intelligent System (SoDa IS) that builds links to other services (also called resources) that are located in various countries. To answer a request, the SoDa service invokes several resources to elaborate the appropriate answer and ensures the flow and exchange of information between the resources and itself, as well as with the customer.
Last update: 8/10/10 12:19 PM