About

PV Hawk is written by Lukas Bommes - Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN)

Contributors

Dr. Ian Marius Peters (i.peters@fz-juelich.de) - Supervision, Funding procurement
Dr. Claudia Buerhop-Lutz - Thermography expert, Labelling of defect datasets, Funding procurement
Tobias Pickel - Thermography expert, Drone Pilot
Dr. Jens Hauch - Funding procurement
Prof. Dr. Christoph Brabec - Supervision
Aline Kirsten - Early stage testing
Bernd Doll, Sandy Rodrigues, Dr. Johannes Hepp - Data labelling

Acknowledgments

We sincerely thank our partners for financial support of the project:

Bavarian State Government, project PV-Tera (No. 446521a/20/5)
German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), project COSIMA (No. 032429A)
IBC SOLAR AG funding of project iPV4.0 (No. 0324286)
Allianz Risk Consulting GmbH / Allianz Zentrum für Technik (AZT) in Munich, Germany
PV Service Pro Kollnburg, Germany
N-Ergie AG Nürnberg, Germany

We especially thank the N-Ergie AG for granting usage permission of the exemplary datasets provided with PV Hawk.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Citation

PV Hawk is based on the following journal papers. If you use PV Hawk in your own research please consider citing us.

[1] L. Bommes, T. Pickel, C. Buerhop-Lutz, J. Hauch, C. Brabec, and I. Peters, “Georeferencing of photovoltaic modules from aerial infrared videos using structure-from-motion,” Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 1122–1135, 2022. DOI 10.1002/pip.3564. [ArXiv 2204.02733]

@article{Bommes.2022b,
    author = {Bommes, Lukas and Pickel, Tobias and Buerhop-Lutz, Claudia and Hauch, Jens and Brabec, Christoph and Peters, Ian Marius},
    title = {Georeferencing of photovoltaic modules from aerial infrared videos using structure-from-motion},
    journal = {Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications},
    year = {2022},
    volume = {30},
    number = {9},
    pages = {1122--1135},
    doi = {10.1002/pip.3564}}

[2] L. Bommes, T. Pickel, C. Buerhop-Lutz, J. Hauch, C. Brabec, and I. Peters, “Computer vision tool for detection, mapping, and fault classification of photovoltaics modules in aerial IR videos,” Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, vol. 29, no. 12, pp. 1236–1251, 2021. DOI 10.1002/pip.3448. [ArXiv 2106.07314]

@article{Bommes.2021,
    author = {Bommes, Lukas and Pickel, Tobias and Buerhop-Lutz, Claudia and Hauch, Jens and Brabec, Christoph and Peters, Ian Marius},
    title = {Computer vision tool for detection, mapping, and fault classification of photovoltaics modules in aerial {IR} videos},
    journal = {Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications},
    year = {2021},
    volume = {29},
    number = {12},
    pages = {1236--1251},
    doi = {10.1002/pip.3448}}

[3] L. Bommes, M. Hoffmann, C. Buerhop-Lutz, T. Pickel, J. Hauch, C. Brabec, A. Maier, and I. Peters, “Anomaly detection in IR images of PV modules using supervised contrastive learning,” Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 597–614, 2022. DOI 10.1002/pip.3518. [ArXiv 2112.02922]

@article{Bommes.2022,
    author = {Bommes, Lukas and Hoffmann, Mathis and Buerhop-Lutz, Claudia and Pickel, Tobias and Hauch, Jens and Brabec, Christoph and Maier, Andreas and Peters, Ian Marius},
    title = {Anomaly detection in {IR} images of {PV} modules using supervised contrastive learning},
    journal = {Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications},
    year = {2022},
    volume = {30},
    number = {6},
    pages = {597--614},
    doi = {10.1002/pip.3518}}