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Detect Solar Panels

$750-1500 AUD

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Posted over 9 years ago

$750-1500 AUD

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I have an idea for which I am unsure whether it is at all possible. Please feel free to tell me if I am wasting my time, or to give me an honest appraisal of the opportunity. The idea is as follows: - In Australia, approximately 1 million households have solar power on their roof. - For the majority of these customers, satellite photography clearly shows the panels on the roof - see attached image as an example. This image was obtained from [login to view URL] for which we have a subscription. - I would like to automatically search satellite photos to locate houses which have solar power systems and then record the address of the property in question. - While it may not be possible to locate all 1 million homes, a hit rate of, say 50%, would deliver approximately 500,000 street addresses where solar has been installed. My question is whether it is realistic/possible to create an image search algorithm which automatically detected solar panels on the roof and recorded the address? Any ideas/suggestions/comments would be very much appreciated. Jeff
Project ID: 6342130

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We would love to discuss the project details, before placing a firm bid. We have some initial questions and more will follow as we discuss. This will ensure we have a strong grasp on the project. Looking forward to hear from you.
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Let's discuss over freelancer Personal Message Box for the proper estimation of cost and time. I am myself doing programming so you will directly work with one person and that's me. No mediators. No managers. No subcontractors. see my recent work for the technical expertise along with reviews & feedback on my profile page.
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Hi, your project sounds interesting. I think you need to have a lot of computing power in order to process millions of photos (and it's time consuming as well).
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Hello I have gone through your requirement and get the idea what are looking in scope. As per your scope we need to use 3rd party API so its possible. Because its legal thing so we cant scrap any data. Lets can you open chat session so let you know how how to process it? Looking forward to hear from you. Thanks
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Dear Sir. We claim to get it done perfectly for you EXACTLY in the way you want it - Kindly give we a chance and we will prove myself - Ready to prove our words, let's get it done right away and I mean RIGHT AWAY !! Looking forward to hear from you soon - GOD Bless You.
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Professional Engineer with experience of 37 years in field of solar power and solar instruments...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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Hi, It was nice to see your job posting and it seems very interesting and challenging as well. But at the same time, its a doable task and it is not something that can not be achieved. I can do this task by employing the template matching approach and we can detect the solar panels installed on the roof tops. For this, the resolution of the images and the distance at which an image is captured is important. If the height from which a certain area is looked at can be restricted at the first stage to simplify the problem and then later on extending the functionality to cover different heights. Please let me know, how you would like to go ahead with the project. You will provide images to find out the location of solar panels or you will provide the access to some map and do it on the fly. I am looking forward to discuss project in detail with you. Regards
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Dear very interesting job. it is my pleasure to take part in the bid on your project. let me introduce myself. I have worked for almost 15 year in the institute of Remote Sensing & Geoinformatics. my main task is classification of land use/land type and estimation of crop yield using satellite image data. the satellite image data we used is MODIS, LANDSAT ETM++. after that i opened my own new company. here i am team manager having well skilled 30 IT programmers. our team is divided into 4 group, that is, window mac os linux desktop application group, Mobile application group, GIS & RS application group, Web application group. Game development group. RS& GIS developer team are all skilled in c, c++, Google map, ARCGIS,postGIS,Flex,JSON, ESRI, QGIS, satellite image processing, algorithm development, PCI, ENVI, ERDAS very well. we have developed various Remote sensing and GIS related projects. and few months ago, i had done solar panel detecting project which is very similar with your project. Based on this experience, we are going to develop your project using pattern recognition algorithm on the Google satellite image the accuracy will be 50~70 percent. after that we will do manually fix. then you can get successfull database of solar panel in australia. thanks hope to work with u Jin
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Hello! I can't help you myself with this project, but I have a friend, who specializes in the treatment of satellite images
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Hi Jeff, I am a electrical/renewable energy engineer located in Melbourne. I'm not an expert in this area (the programming side) however would love to chat with you about this. I am of a number of different pieces of software that have been used to do a bunch of modelling etc. on solar panels output from rooftop geospatial data. my old company did a number of these. i was involved from the side of these projects, what often happened and the structure for them was that there was LIDAR data obtained for an area, and the standard image data, both of these were in ARCGIS software and then processing code was written in python, which is good for scripting in ARCGIS. Dont know how you would get the data from nearmap to do image processing like that, would require downloading all the images from nearmap wouldnt it? Please if you would like to chat, get in touch (please dont select me as I'm an average programmer) - buggered if i know who these guys are who can do it for 800 bucks. Good luck and kind regards, Michael
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Hi I am Brian, currently offering services on behalf of one of the leading Digital Agencies specializing in product + brand development and lead generation optimization. Before getting into more details lets put following out there, we do not accept projects until and unless both of us client and provider has absolute understanding of every aspect related to the project. We have several branch offices (LA, San Jose, Chicago and NJ) so you can reach us anytime. We have worked with both large enterprises as eel as small mom and pop shops and we value each client equally. Let me know if you would like us to start working on a proper functional documentation and proposal for your project!. To complete the functional documentation we would need to start speaking so that I can understand what your vision is and documenting it in a way that technologists would be able to understand. Hope to speak to you soon!
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