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Getting Started

A Simple Land Eligibility Workflow

Objective: Determine land eligibility for photovoltaic (PV) modules in the Aachen administration region considering that:

  1. PV modules should not cover agricultural areas (because people need to eat)
  2. PV modules should not be within 200 meters of a major roadway (because they may get dirty)
  3. PV modules should not be within 1000 meters of a settlement area (because they are too shiny)
from glaes import ExclusionCalculator

ec = ExclusionCalculator(aachenRegion, srs=3035, pixelRes=100)
ec.excludePrior("agriculture_proximity", value=0)
ec.excludePrior("settlement_proximity", value=(None, 1000))
ec.excludePrior("roads_main_proximity", value=(None, 200))
ec.draw()

European Priors

GLAES provides precomputed Prior datasets for the European context covering the most commonly considered criteria for land eligibility analyses. These can be downloaded from Mendeley Data and placed in glaes/data/priors.

Using Priors is as simple as calling excludePrior() with the prior name and desired value threshold.

Next Steps

For more detailed examples, see: